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Originally Posted by leeperry  so it's not quite a deathmatch against the 280 strands glass toslink then..
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who cares about the "
280 strands glass toslink"? Is there some magical property in glass toslink cables that the whole audiophile community has missed?
Do you really think that a glass toslink and DIR9001 are the most important things in digital audio?
leeperry, I am sorry to repeat it also in this thread. You clearly lack any deep knowledge about jitter and how DACs work. Yet you cannot stop yourself from posing for an expert and saying to people that the xx strands glass toslink is the only way to go and that no A/B test is valid until they try the glass cable you are using with a DAC that has the same DIR9001 your entry level dac has. You also copy past the same insignificant isolated posts. You don't seem to understand that the power supply, design of the pcb, choice of components, addtional PLLs, reclocking, ... all have an impact on the sound.
Let's take the Weiss DAC2 (one of the many DACs rosgr63 has). It is a (very expensive) pro DAC with a well thought digital section. Even if didn't use what you called the
the jitter shamans(DIR9001?), it has many buffers/reclocking inside that the end result is a much lower jitter and clock phase noise than any regular DAC which uses a DIR9001 without any additional measure.
Do you realize that if you worry about jitter so much that a BNC coaxial cable is the preferred way to go? The best glass toslink cables will have a bandwidth in the MHz range while the coaxial have a bandwidth in the GHz range (which more than a 100 time more).
The only advantage of optical cables is the electrical isolation, but it involves 2 extra steps (conversion form electricity to light then again from light to electricity) which increases highly jitter. Any decent transport will use a pulse transformer which will basically provide a similar galvanic isolation as toslink while maintaining a much much more wider bandwidth.
My intent is not to start yet another argument with you. And the few questions I made in this post are rhetorical as I sadly do not expect any sensible response from you.
) and/or your 50 karat golden ears(that's implied of course 
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