Fiber Optic Digital vs Coax Digital Audio?

[royphil345]

I don't think it would be a matter of the error handling of the DAC. Like I said... With a standard transport and DAC... Any error will result in a "digital band-aid" being applied. No real recovery of missing / corrupt information is possible. So, the more errors you have between a transport and DAC... the worse the sound will be, no matter how well the error correction is working.

It may be a case of my equipment being so crappy that the sending and reading of the digital information isn't perfect, and that different cables can actually make some small difference in the number of errors. That's what I would have to believe... And if it's true in my system, it may be a factor in others as well. I swear the difference I heard was beyond anything imagined.