Optical vs. Electrical

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Lee S
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#1 Optical vs. Electrical

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Just swapped out a good quality, true 75R terminated co-ax cable that connects my SB3 to my DAC, with a good quality glass-fibre optical TOSlink interconnect and blimey !! It has removed a level of hash that I wasn't aware was present until it was gone and it also appears to have improved the HF response and sound-stage scale too.... Result !!! 8)

Anyone else use optical over electrical? :?:
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#2 Re: Optical vs. Electrical

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Lee S wrote:Just swapped out a good quality, true 75R terminated co-ax cable that connects my SB3 to my DAC, with a good quality glass-fibre optical TOSlink interconnect and blimey !! It has removed a level of hash that I wasn't aware was present until it was gone and it also appears to have improved the HF response and sound-stage scale too.... Result !!! 8)

Anyone else use optical over electrical? :?:
It's proved that you had electrical noise causing problems, possibly a ground loop of some sort.
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I've always found coax to be better sounding...
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Me too. But it can take a lot more effort to get it right. SB3 doesn't have output pulse transformer so as already mentioned, possibly a ground loop.
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