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Some people enjoy the conversion of one DAC over another. Try it both ways and see if you prefer one over the other.
Thanks for that little bit o information, Badger! I was playing with my new stuff last night. I was playing CDs through my DVD player into my HK630 using the el cheapo red/white "interconnect" that came with some piece of equipment or another. You know the ones, everybody has at least one of them at home. I took the red side, plugged it into digital out on the DVD player and into coax 1 on the 630. It sounds beautiful. I was wondering if using an optical connectionn would be any improvement in sound? They're both digital, so they should be identical sounding. Unless, of course, the cheapo coax drops bits that some error correction algorythm in the the 630 needs to replace. Any thoughts?
