afraid Posted May 24, 2001 Share Posted May 24, 2001 If so what brand? ------------------ Yamaha 595a SB-1's (pair) SC .5 (center) SS.5's (pair, rear channels) Zenith 27" TV Toshiba 3109 DVD player Optimus HT Surge Protector Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Garrison Posted May 24, 2001 Share Posted May 24, 2001 Does the Yamaha 595 support coax digital input on an RCA jack? If so, you might want to try using that rather than the TOSLINK connection. Lots of high end fuddy duddies ( ME ) think that the coax, probably as a result of the more extended bandwidth resulting in in phaseshift-induced jitter, sounds better than the relatively low bandwidth TOSLINK connection. If you're lock into TOSLINK ( ) there's, like, a zillion alternatives at all sorts of price points. I just did a google search on the the string: toslink digital cable and got all sorts of on-line merchant sites. Ray ------------------ Music is art Audio is engineering Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Garrison Posted May 24, 2001 Share Posted May 24, 2001 oops... fat fingers... that should have said: "...probably as a result of the more extended bandwidth resulting in in LESSs> phaseshift-induced jitter..." fff space jjj space f space j space fff space... Ray ------------------ Music is art Audio is engineering Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samuel r Posted June 7, 2001 Share Posted June 7, 2001 i know it's stupid, but when you say "tosslink", do you mean optical opposed to coax? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boa12 Posted June 7, 2001 Share Posted June 7, 2001 to answer for ray: yes. just pick up a rat shack gold series digital audio cable(what we like to call coax) for like $6.99 & see if you can hear a dif. why spend another $40 for another optical cable? rat shacks are fine there too IMHO. ------------------ Klipsch KLF 30 (front), KLF C-7, Cornwall I (rear) Velodyne HGS-18 sub woofer Monsterbass 400 sub interconnects & Monster CX-2 biwire & Z-12 cable Marantz SR-8000 receiver Sony DVP-C650D cd/dvd player Sony Trinitron 27" stereo tv Toshiba hi-fi stereo vcr Technics dual cassette deck Scientific Atlanta Explorer 2000 digital cable box Boa's Listenin Lounge: Klipsch RF-3 (front), RC-3, cheap little Technics (rear) Monster MCX Biwires Sony STR-DE935 a/v receiver Kenwood KR-9600 AM/FM stereo receiver (vintage 1975) Russound AB-2 receiver switch to RF-3 Teac PD-D1200 5-disk cd changer Technics direct drive turntable Sega Genesis game player Sub: None yet rock on! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samuel r Posted June 7, 2001 Share Posted June 7, 2001 i know it's a stupid question, but when you mention "tosslink", does that mean optical? is coax a better choice if so? three of my digital sources (dss, ps2, dvd) are all using optical cables. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boa12 Posted June 7, 2001 Share Posted June 7, 2001 samuel, yes toslink & optical are same at least for this discussion. i was saying on another thread that this is one of the great "tastes great" - "less filling" debates. though there may be some measurable dif., i doubt highly it's an audible one. not for my comparisons definitely. but jmo, don't want to get into it again see the thread under i think general or HT "optical or coax" or something. you'll see many opinions. ------------------ Klipsch KLF 30 (front), KLF C-7, Cornwall I (rear) Velodyne HGS-18 sub woofer Monsterbass 400 sub interconnects & Monster CX-2 biwire & Z-12 cable Marantz SR-8000 receiver Sony DVP-C650D cd/dvd player Sony Trinitron 27" stereo tv Toshiba hi-fi stereo vcr Technics dual cassette deck Scientific Atlanta Explorer 2000 digital cable box Boa's Listenin Lounge: Klipsch RF-3 (front), RC-3, cheap little Technics (rear) Monster MCX Biwires Sony STR-DE935 a/v receiver Kenwood KR-9600 AM/FM stereo receiver (vintage 1975) Russound AB-2 receiver switch to RF-3 Teac PD-D1200 5-disk cd changer Technics direct drive turntable Sega Genesis game player Sub: None yet rock on! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunnysal Posted June 8, 2001 Share Posted June 8, 2001 unlike with speaker cables and interconnects in the preamp, power amp, speaker chain I have been unable to detect any difference when I swap out cables between my CD players, my jitter reducer and my DAC, I have tried various brands of 75ohm and Toslink cables and really could not hear any difference...in the end I put the most expensive version of coax between my jitter reducer and DAC and went with the most expensive version of toslink from the CD to the jitter reducer...the build quality and RF protection seemed to be the major difference in cables, I genuinely could not hear any audible difference...with speaker cables and interconnects in the other chain I seem to have preferences...but not in this chain so far...Tony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Garrison Posted June 8, 2001 Share Posted June 8, 2001 Sunnysal, That probably means that the digital interfaces (transmitter and receiver) in your equipment are well designed and have a high level of jitter rejection, or attenuation. In less well engineered interfaces, where the receiver is not using some sort of phase locked loop or other type of de-jitter-fier, the restricted bandwidth of the TOSLINK cable vs the coax cable can cause a less precise determination of the "latch edge" of the signal coming into the receiver, potentially resulting in elevated levels of jitter. Well designed interfaces will exhibit smaller, or no, differences between various types of digital cables. Or so "they" tell me... Ray ------------------ Music is art Audio is engineering Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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