On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 16:55:09 +0000, Ian Molton wrote:

On Fri, 06 Feb 2004 16:08:42 +0000
Nutter wrote:

MUG ALERT! Oh Dear Ian.

WTF are you on about? 20ukp for 12 metres of optic fibre with 'plugs' on
is not bad at all.

Okay, I'll stop taking the **** now.... IT'S A DIGITAL SIGNAL, ANY OLD
PIECE OF ****E WILL DO (for coax)!

ILLITERACY ALERT! I said *optic fibre* not coax.

Which is why on this group, Coax is prefered

Is it? Cant say I've noticed a preference either way.

At least with the optic fibre I dont even have to CARE about wether
noise from my PC will ever reach my DAC (probably wouldnt on coax either
but I like that I dont need to care.

, because it does the same thing and the cable costs virtually nothing.

The Coax can *in theory* transmit more than just the wanted signal (no I
dont mean jitter). Wether it does or not is down to your individual
equipment. This is simply a non-issue with optic fibre.

I didnt buy a 12 m optic fibre anyhow - I bought a 3m one. that 6ukp was
including VAT+PnP IIRC too. Thats a good price for ANY interconnect,
even a coax one.

Ian, I think you have failed to understand how your original post was
interpreted.

You stated:
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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.
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What I am saying is that, Coax is always cheaper, because you can you
a really crap standard piece of phono cable instead of a far more
expensive optical one.

Your comment interferance from the PC are incorrect. With Digital
coax, the signal either reaches the DAC intact or not. You will hear
if it does not reach the DAC properly. If the cable carries
interferance of any kind (unlikely) it is simply ignored by the DAC
due to the error correction built into the digital signal.


Ray.