AES VS Coax for sound quality

schmidtmike76

schmidtmike76

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I’m looking at the Teac 701T to feed into my Esoteric NX05XD. But this unit only has a coax output I was under the impression that AES has always been superior. Should this be a deciding factor? I think for the money this transport looks like a winner except that it’s missing a AES output. Thoughts and opinions please
 
SPDIF is the protocol for both, and TOSLink. Each has pluses, and minuses, and quality of information. Electrical/optical signals with several differing methods of transmission, and methods of preventing corruption of that signal.

So you would have to try individually.
 
Technically speaking, AES (XLR) is best for longer runs and where noise is an issue. But If the distance is short, say, less than 6 feet, Coaxial (RCA or BNC) works equally well.
 
Hi - there can be a huge difference and those that have tried with decent systems can attest to.

It will come down to a couple of factors:

  • Is the gear the signal is coming out of designed better for one cable type over another? Few companies put the same effort into each connection type and they openly admit this;
  • Is the gear you are sending the signal to designed with a preference for one connection over the other;
  • Unless you have the same cable brand/level of the different cables you are not really comparing apples to apples.

I actually did a video testing three different cable connections on gear to see if one sounded better than the others. The companies involved all agreed there is no one single right answer and explained in detail to me the above points I just listed.

In fact they all kinda laughed at the complete misinformation people on forums believe to be gospel and spout as fact. They are adamant there is no one single answer on which is better as there are the variables listed.

Good luck and let us know how it turns out!
 
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