1Up, Thank you for the quick response. I suppose I need to do a bit more research. I was under the impression that optical and coaxial connections were of roughly equivalent quality. The DAC I was considering is the Theta Gen Va. Would you say I'd be better off with something like the...

Hi. I've been a fairly persistent lurker here and over at audiogon for the last year or so, and after gathering some funds, I'm preparing to (finally) set up a system. All I can say is...wow. Who knew that the search for reference quality audio would be so involved, or that the steps between...