It all depends on the DACs you use


Of course... I was referring ONLY to the transmission medium.

A monster cable Digital cable is not , regardless of their marketing, going to give you BETTER sound quaility over a ratshack digital cable (or not marketed as a digital cable, but carrying digital information). I can't count the number of times I've wanted to throttle a marketing droid trying to sell a $90 toslink cable, because it will "sound clearer and more dynamic".... IT's all F*CKING ones and zeros... The DAC doesn't care if your ones are 40 times more intense than the ratshack cable... As long as it can tell it's a one, it's going to sound exactly the same... And if it can't tell it's a one, it just isn't going to work.

There is no middle of the line with regards to the transmission media... It works, or it doesn't. It's not going to effect the sound character.

But, I have to admit, I'd still probably shoot for slightly less capable DACS on the remote end of a very long interconnect rather than going analog and dealing with those problems.... But the obvious solution to that is just to never buy anything with less than perfect DAC's.