Most people when they say coax mean the digital connection with RCA plugs, optical they say toslink. There is a XLR digital connection as well AES3 which SPDIF is based on.
xlr cables seem to have limited bandwidth to 192. I am exploring more bandwidth and coaxial seems to be a lot better short of usb which seems to be best.
I believe all digital connections are limited to 24/192 except USB, any I2S implementation or ethernet. Someone else will need to chime in on what's best, redbook CD, 24/96 or 24/192 is very hard for me to tell much difference.
I used a spare RCA interconnect (nominally 50Ω) for Spdif when I first got a DAC, it worked but a cable designed for the job but with RCAs on both ends was quite an improvement and a 75Ω cable with BNC connectors (Belden 4794R) better still even though it was designed for 12G SDI video and I had to use an adaptor at the DAC end because Rega didn’t see fit to put a BNC socket to their DAC. I think they were all coax cables.
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