DVD Audio -- processor....TOSLINK or RCA?

RCA...toslink isn't even in the same ball park!

I've read that toslink can be better, but the audio companies do not use top quality components for the signal receptacles on the back of each unit. It is cheaper to use sub-commercial grade receptacles. I use the RCA output on my DVD player for digital signals. Just curious, is DVD-A capable of being output as a digital signal? Or is it only SACD that has to be output as analog? My Sony S9000ES has to send the SACD signal out as analog.

Fatparrot is right...... RCA connection has much less noise and jitter.

btw: the reason to use an outboard processor is because the built in ones use the cheapest chips available on the market, assuming that anyone that uses them has a very simple system. Use them until you feel like spending more money.

In answer to both you and Argent, I believe that, at least at this point in time, you cannot output a 24/96 digital signal from a DVD-A disc played on a DVD-Audio player, and it is a software issue, not a hardware one. So an outboard DAC would help 16/44 redbook CD playback (if the unit plays CDs), but wouldn't help the higher resolution signal you're paying the extra money for with the DVD-A discs.