In article , Nutter
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On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 14:53:42 +0000, Ian Molton wrote:

On Fri, 06 Feb 2004 14:13:23 +0000 (GMT)
Dave Plowman wrote:

I'd like to run a digital out from my DVD player to a DAC. How long can
this cable be? I can use a coaxial or an optical. I was hoping it could
run six metres.

Is this way out or is this possible?

No problem. Use co-ax rather than optical - it's cheaper.

'scuse me? I picked up a 3m optical cable for 6ukp.

they were selling 12m ones for ~20 IIRC.

MUG ALERT! Oh Dear Ian.

My Digital Coax cable cost me nothing, it was one of those 'free' ones
you get with every Hi-Fi box. Better still you get 2 of them, ones
colored Red and one White. Personally I think the Red one gives a
warmer sound.

Okay, I'll stop taking the **** now.... IT'S A DIGITAL SIGNAL, ANY OLD
PIECE OF ****E WILL DO (for coax)! Which is why on this group, Coax is
prefered, because it does the same thing and the cable costs virtually
nothing.

Ray.


Yep, we ran SPDIF down a couple of hundred metres of CT100 co-ax the
other month and it sounded fine!.....
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Tony Sayer