Originally Posted By: Dr.House
I always use a digital audio cable either coaxial or optical (toslink). I have never experimented between analog and digital connections with a cd player
I have and found the analog to sound slightly less 'bright' than the digital connection. I felt the highs and sibilance were less with the analog connection but it could have been psychosomatic, I have no way of proving nor disproving and certainly no way to measure the FR.

Jason
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