Digital Optical vs. Digital Coax

[Ray_C]

Hi All,

I haven't been around these forums much since I purchased some 170s and a VTF2 last year some time. Real life sure gets busy sometimes.

I just bought a Marantz DV9500 universal player and will probably have to rearrange everything in my setup since it is a little taller than my old dvd player. Rearranging probably means buying more cables to fit the lengths and I was wondering if there is any actual difference between using a toslink optical cable for the audio vs. using a good quality digital coax cable.

Thanks for any suggestions.
Ray

edit: I've been using optical for my current dvd player as well as my Xbox. I've never tried the digital coax.

edit again: Now that I think about it, the audio processor on the Marantz is supposed to be top notch. Should I go with analog connections to my receiver then? It is a Kenwood VR-8070. Then the signal will have already been converted by the Marantz processor and the signal can just be boosted by the Kenwood.