On Jun 16, 2008, at 6:14 AM, Michael Rigby-Jones wrote: > people assuming that a digital interface is immune from any cable > effects are either ignorant or deluding themselves. Yes, and this is what the physical layers like "10baseT" are designed to handle, and the link layer is designed to detect errors, and the network layer is designed to correct. With a digital cable, and especially for something like ip over ethernet (although it's true that this isn't ever called an ethernet cable on the Denon site), either the bits come out the same as they went in, or they don't. There is no "these correct bits sound better than these other correct bits because their edges were less rounded on the cable." BillW -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist