Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Technical Questions how to connect optical toslink cable?

The cable limitation of Firewire 400 is 4.5m per run, but it allows daisy chaining so you could theoretically run it to 72m (repeaters run about $50 each). Firewire 800 and 1200, on the other hand doesn't have this limitation but I can't for the life of me find exactly what the limitation is.

Ah... Semi, now I seem to remember reading those things somewhere. In that case the FireWire would make a MUCH better interface between the AV receiver/video source and the display device than DVI. Really, DVI-D sucks in comparison. Does FireWire have a HDCP-like provision for copy protection?

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Really, DVI-D sucks in comparison. Does FireWire have a HDCP-like provision for copy protection?

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Not that I'm aware of, but it would be easy to implement one on the transmitter and receiver, I think.

their website is here:

http://www.1394ta.org/

I haven't looked through everything, but it does have a nice listing of compliant components.

Dan, it shouldn't be assumed that the DVD-As will sound better with the 6 analog cables. One point is that the higher resolution which that would allow may not actually make an audible difference to you. Also, unless you have a provision for bass management in the player, a separate component(e.g. the Outlaw ICBM) or your receiver(you don't) for those analog signals, all the bass on the 6 cables will be sent to your speakers instead of the low bass being all sent to the sub, which of course would handle it much better.

If your Rotel has the same remote as my RSX-1065 then its a one button thing too...on the remote...thereceiver has the button in front too. Don't know on the Processor. One thing to note though with the RSX-1065..the surround DAC is excellent..same as 60% on all high end DAC on good names like Meridian ..etc.. Analog DAC ( Ashai Kasei AKM 4324, and the AKM 5351 ADCs) is not as good...my older Marantz DAC sounds better. Your processor might be better since its separates. The reason for the lower end DAC could be Rotel didn't want to rule out customers won't buy there CD player which does have better DACs (Burr Brown or Delta/Sigma DAC).

Semi might know more about DAC quality and such.

thanks, believe i understand now.
dan

spiff, guess that's what i'll need to do too. before we all, my family, got into this, i had the speakers off on the tv and had the stereo speakers hooked up to a 2 channel receiver. we needed to turn knobs and flip a switch on it. so confusing, i had to print out directions and place them on the dvd player. looks like i'll need to find that file and change some of the steps once i purchase the interconnects for the dvd/receiver. simplicity is great.
dan

sushi, are you saying your pio knows or remembers if the source is a dvd or a dvd-a on it's own?

gawd, after reading the various posts, it seems i may keep my wallet in my back pocket. the analog connectors will send the proper signals to each speaker as the dvd player tells it to. however, my receiver is not able to handle the lfe, and if i'm correct, cannot adjust the tonal qualities of the music being heard; better off using the toslink connector. that is unless i catch a plane, get a black stocking masked hat, bring some tools, learn how to defeat sushi's alarm system, and slyly pocket his pio with the 6 analog cables..just kidding. i may need to change my screen name to "defeated dan".
dan