Digital Or Optical Connection Lead for Sony 1070?

[Jay Da Feesh]

Can anyone help me? Got a Sony 1070 amp for christmas but don`t know which lead to use to connect my Sony 525 dvd player to the 1070. Should i use a digital or optical lead.

Also which cable would you recommend i use?

Cheers

[Bapapapa]

An optical lead <u>is</u> a digital one. :D

Do you mean coax or optical?

If so and your DVD player will accept both, go with the cheapest.

[Cable Monkey]

Sony say, given the choice go for co-ax in their amp handbooks. The only reason for this, before optical lead fans leap to its defence, is because Sony set the amps to check each input for a signal, and the first to be looked on the DVD input is the coax input. I am of course assuming the 1070 works mechanically in much the same way as my old 930. A benefit is you can have 2 digital sources on one input, and if source 1 is switched off it defaults to source 2...

[JonnyO]

Originally posted by Cable Monkey
Sony say, given the choice go for co-ax in their amp handbooks. The only reason for this, before optical lead fans leap to its defence, is because Sony set the amps to check each input for a signal, and the first to be looked on the DVD input is the coax input. I am of course assuming the 1070 works mechanically in much the same way as my old 930. A benefit is you can have 2 digital sources on one input, and if source 1 is switched off it defaults to source 2...

Thats not the reason is it?
The Sony amps can be set to use one connector all the time, instead of searching for an input on auto mode.
Audiophiles ahve argued all of this for ages. I personally reckon a coax connection is better as you won't have to change the electrical signal into an optical signal at either end of the connection like with an optical connection. That might introduce another place for imperfections to creep in.
In reality though, I doubt there is much (if anything) in it...

[Cable Monkey]

I agree, there isn't much in it having listened to both. I think Sony's statement is as much a matter of ergonomics as anything else. Some amps that auto sense the input show strange displays or even output an odd noise in the moments while it is determining the input. Selecting a specific input has been published as a cure for some of these types of problems. Alternatively you could recommend using the first option the amp checks rather than hoping they read the handbook from cover to cover! Just a thought...:)