COAX VS OPTICAL CABLES

I still remember from my EE Electromagnetic class that optical cable has almost no transmission line loss.

Craig is correct. If you have the cash, Acoustic Zen MC2 is hard to beat ($300 new, used ???, check Audiogon daily!)

don't waste your $$ . get belden 1695 and put some canare Coax RCAs on it. save your $300 and get the same performance.
rhyno

Optical cables sound better with longer length, such as 10 meter.

While optical cables may have minimal line loss, the same can not be said for the digital to optical convertor on the "playback" unit or the conversion from optical back to digital on the "recording" unit. Why not stay digital from deck to deck and then finally convert it to analogue upon playback ??? Sean
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