Posted by Nath on 10/13/05 13:28

"Mark A" <m.annetts-nospam@rbgkew.org.uk> wrote in message
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> graham chapman wrote:
>>
>> I've selected the coaxial connection. Am I likely to hear a
>> difference if I buy a optical lead?
>
> Nothing that any sane person would be able to detect. It's noughts
> and ones with error checking, they don't care what they ride along.
>
> Regards
>
> Mark

AFAIK PCM doesn't have any error checking however, so if I understand it
right if the connection has higher jitter therefore the error correction in
the DAC cannot fix this higher jitter. Probably why some high end integrated
CD players are superior to lower-end transport/DAC combinations

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