Toslink to Coaxal convertors

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Hi all,

It's been a while since my last post and since then I've dragged myself into the digital age and set up a Vortex Box system on an AsRock ION 330 based mini PC.

I had hoped to output the FLAC content to my Musical Fidelity X-DAC V8 via the TOSLink output on the ASRock but alas, it appears that the X-DAC only has Coaxal or USB digital inputs. USB works fine but I wondered if the results would be better using Coaxal inputs? To this end, I was thinking of buying a TOSLink to Coaxal convertor and wondered if any one had any experience of them?

Also I wondered if adding such a convertor was worthwhile over the existing USB inputs as I wasn't sure if by adding another piece of kit into the mix would negate any benefits Coaxal would have over USB anyway?

Hope this makes sense.

Regards

Aeis

 

[pwiles1968]

From what I have been led to believe USB is superior to Toshlink so I doubt you will get any improvement, plus you adding more links and connections in to the chain which themselves may add errors, personally I would stick with what you have already.

 

[sos]

Isn't toslink, being optical, immune to groundwire differences, hence hum? In contrast, coxaial isn't, hence is.

Sure, there's the prospect of jitter over optical.