Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Home Theater Is it true that Coaxial is better than Toslink?

I defer to P.T. Barnum.

As for the Axiom wire... I'm now up to 3 empty 50ft spools of it. Does it sound any better than the pink jacketed copper I had in there before? Of course not.

It IS easy to work with, the insulation is really supple, and it's got the Axiom imprint for some cool factor.

Over half of mine is above the acoustic ceiling, but the cool factor is still there for any spiders or what have you crawling around up there.

Bren R.

i have a squirrel that has gotten up in my attic. all he gets to see is the 14 gauge, .25 cents a foot cheap stuff from Home Depot!!

i have put up some poison to run him off, but i dont think he has taken the bait. once i do get him out, i gotta go figure how he got in, and plug up the hole. damn varmints.

bigjohn

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once i do get him out, i gotta go figure how he got in, and plug up the hole.

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.......(letting it slide)... too easy.

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too easy

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what? no pet shop boys reference...

bigjohn

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.......(letting it slide)... too easy.

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I'm starting to think the only thing more disturbing than BigJohn's port obsession is Ash's obsession with his obsession.

Bren R.

Well thanks again for the replies - the guy said something about the insulation of the wire, he said if it was softer and sort of bend back from being pushed on it helped with the conductivity of the wires, and he said something about phase too lol I cant remember all of it. In general they are really nice guys there thoguh, other than the wire they havent pushed me to buy another more expensive where it didnt need to be - ie I asked them if I should trade up from my AVR225 to the 235 (or was it 230) on display for like 720$ and they said I shouldnt bother, even if the newer ones have Component switching and other fancy features. Besides I like their used stuff They give me deals everytime I go in there and actually take the time to explain everything, pehaps Ill just turn a deaf ear onto them when they start going on about speaker wire?

My very close friends that are in the audio design and setup business for the richy riches told me to use coax because optical has to convert the signal where coax does not.

Optical goes from a digital signal to optical to digital again, whereas coax is a digital signal all the way. At least that is what they told me and it kind of seems to make sense. They didn't say that there was any sound difference though. Just seemed more efficient to not convert the signal at all.

Also, I got a lovely coax cable from cablewholesale.com for next to nothing. Like 8 bucks. And it is a really nice looking well put together cable. I couldn't believe the audible difference going from analog to digital.

More like electrical to optical and optical to electrical. It's all digital. Let me tell you, if they didn't have that little conversion down, most large networks wouldn't work. And it's WAY more important to have good data going over data networks than good data going between audio components.

Yah that's what I meant.

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I'm starting to think the only thing more disturbing than BigJohn's port obsession is Ash's obsession with his obsession.

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HEY! i only have a problem if i ADMIT it!