Blu ray to DAC - best optical cable?

[joe15hifi]

Hi,

I'm considering (5 metre) optical connection from Blu Ray to my Q-DAC, does anyone recommend/have experience with any alternatives to (? best option?) the QED Performance graphite digital optical ? Cheers

System Marantz PM8003/cd6005, Q-dac, Panasonic Bluray DMR-BS750, Quad speakers, XT40 cable

joe15hifi

PS Additional point - intended setup is essentially for music listening (standard cd/Bluray or high quality audio 24 bit/96khz discs) listening, additional televisual features on DVD discs are nice but really only of secondary interest). I'm also assuming digital output from the Bluray is ? probably better than that from my TV (Panasonic TXL32)?

Also does anybody know whether I have to fiddle with Bluray audio out settings to switch between TV(HDMI) and Bluray(best audio I can configure - via DAC and amp)??

Cheers in advance...

 

[keeper of the quays]

Hi, 

I'm considering (5 metre) optical connection from Blu Ray to my Q-DAC, does anyone recommend/have experience with any alternatives to (? best option?) the QED Performance graphite digital optical ? Cheers

System Marantz PM8003/cd6005, Q-dac, Panasonic Bluray DMR-BS750, Quad speakers, XT40 cable

joe15hifi

PS Additional point - intended setup is essentially for music listening (standard cd/Bluray or high quality audio 24 bit/96khz discs) listening, additional televisual features on DVD discs are nice but really only of secondary interest). I'm also assuming digital output from the Bluray is ? probably better than that from my TV (Panasonic TXL32)?

Also does anybody know whether I have to fiddle with Bluray audio out settings to switch between TV(HDMI) and Bluray(best audio I can configure - via DAC and amp)??

Cheers in advance...

I bought a cheap optical from amazon...it works very well..im not so sure of differences with optical cables? They are all very good...my cheap optical compared well with my more expensive interconnects..

 

[Superaintit]

In my experience you can spend lots of cash to a cable and at each turn you *believe* it changes. To keep yourself sane just buy a professional toslink cable from, say Vandamme from ebay.
As a final note I'd like to share that I've had quite a few dacs, low middle and high end. I used them all with a bluray player and only when the dac in question had a buffer and resampled the signal, then the source didn't matter for the end result.