I have and older Zenith and Pioneer dvd player that has opt and coax output. My opt. wire was from GE. The coax wire was some unnamed source. I had both wires connected into the Sherwood 6095R that I use. I hit the input switch switching back and forth between the two connections trying one player at a time. Both sounded good, but both did not sound the same. I felt the coaxial gave tighter control over the audio much like a higher damping factor in an amplifier. Lets say you were looking at the mark of a fine and medium ball point pen. The coax was more "fine", the opt. more "med". I liked the coax for movies and the opt. for music(the opt. had a more "tube like sound).

I know we talk alot about one's and zero's here. Recently my brother put an older Pioneer Dv-525 player on his system and then put back his Pioneer Elite Dv38. The output tested was the coaxial. Both players deliver the one and zeros but that elite player is putting out some kind of better one and zeros then the 525. There is a hell of a difference of sound between these two machines. I have long ascertained that the one and zero thing has a SIGNATURE. We can all write the same words and numbers on a piece of paper, but due to our differences in handwriting they will look similar but not the same.