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Originally Posted by merlinmaxwell
Totally OT for this thread (love that it is now a sticky, what fun). Always fibre optic for digital audio, cheap and no chance of a hum loop. And I like the red light.
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There is always two sides to the coin. Fibre optic is fine and dandy provided it is of high enough quality at Tx and Rx ends. And I don't mean snake oil optical cables. I just mean the highest speed devices, and not necessarily TOSLINK.
Coax actually can work much better if done right. By that I mean galvanically isolated at send and receive, with true resistive 75 ohms at each end (and there is a much longer story about that relating to pulse transformers actually not being best at 75 ohms), and a halfway decent 75 ohm cable.