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bigemike said:hey grunjee, go buy a $20 optical cable and hook up your z-680's with that to you nf7-s and try it. I couln't say that my audigy was better once I hooked up the z-680's optically to my nf7-s. All I can say is that it is alot better than analog or coaxial digital. let me know what you think. I am interested becouse I am comparing and audigy gamer to the nf7-s and I think the nf7-s rules, and the optical made it that much better. Not hooking them up optically is stepping back a few years in sound quality.
there is no way that optical can be better than co-ax unless a) you used a cheap co-ax cable, or b) your speakers perform better with optical for some reason.
to get optical out, co-ax has to be converted from electrical >> optical and at the other end of the cable, Optical >> electrical. Asuming everything is in working order, optical can only sound worse, since you have to deal with 2 extra conversion processes. (the difference may be so small that you can't actually hear it - but its there.