Splitting a Digital Coax

venomclan

Hi Guys,
I recently acquired a universal player (Denon 2900) that I would like to use as a dvd player and a cd player (redbook) The Denon has 1 coax and 1 optical output. I would like to use coax for both music and movies. 1 coax would go to my Bel Canto Dac 1.1 for redbook, the other coax to my Outlaw 950 for HT use. Do they make a splitter that can be used for this prupose. I do not know if the standard RCA splitters will work because they are probably not 75ohm.

Any thoughts on this. I did a search but could not find a solution. Thanks
Venom

danger boy

run coax to your Bel Canto.. and optical to your Outlaw 950 won't that work?

venomclan

danger boy wrote:

run coax to your Bel Canto.. and optical to your Outlaw 950 won't that work?

Hi Danger,
Yes, that is what I do now but I prefer coax sound and the connection is stronger imho. I added the Denon last night and now have a nice ground loop to deal with.

steveinaz

Impact Acoustics makes a very nice quartz-glass toslink (SonicWave). I have one, very well built and sounds....well.....like nothing; absolutely neutral presenation. I'll never use an electrical connection again to my DAC. The toslink's turrets are spring loaded so they make a pressure fit against the emitting diode and the receiver, supposedly to reduce the chance of refraction error.

danger boy

venomclan wrote:

Hi Danger,
Yes, that is what I do now but I prefer coax sound and the connection is stronger imho. I added the Denon last night and now have a nice ground loop to deal with.

Ground loop? where is that coming from? You may have to turn off one of the components hooked up to your Denon DVD player.. i would think if you had both outputs on at the same time.. you could run into a ground loop problem.

venomclan

danger boy wrote:

Ground loop? where is that coming from? You may have to turn off one of the components hooked up to your Denon DVD player.. i would think if you had both outputs on at the same time.. you could run into a ground loop problem.

Hi Danger,
I think I narrowed the loop to the cable line going into the tv. Now that I use a universal player, the dac and 2 channel pre and my Outlaw 950 are now all connected. I disconnected the cable line to the tv and the hum disappeared. I guess the hum traveled down the component lines into the 950 and the Denon and then all over the place.

I was under the impression that an optical cable cannot conduct electricity, if so, won't both outputs (coax & opt from the Denon) being on at the same time not be an issue?

venomclan

steveinaz wrote:

Impact Acoustics makes a very nice quartz-glass toslink (SonicWave). I have one, very well built and sounds....well.....like nothing; absolutely neutral presenation. I'll never use an electrical connection again to my DAC. The toslink's turrets are spring loaded so they make a pressure fit against the emitting diode and the receiver, supposedly to reduce the chance of refraction error.

Hi Steve,
Thanks for the info, I will have to check out that toslink. If I go that route, I will then have to run a coax to the Outlaw 950. I tried a Monster optical to the dac and a coax to the 954, but it did not solve the ground loop. It looks like a cablevision issue. Now that I have narrowed the culprit, I am not sure if I should get a rat shack GL Isolater or try to run the cable into by Belkin first then to the tv. I presume going to the Belkin will send the signal to the Belkin grounging and may solve the issue. I guess the best issue is to just sell my whole rig and get HTIB. I must need more coffee because I am talking like a crazy person.
Venom