Solo 2, I have a question about the Link. Why did they use a coaxial digital output instead of an optical one? I haven't seen very many soundbars that have coaxial outputs. I could use it on my old a/v receivers I have but I would have to get them out of storage.
Well, on a radio they never built, they only had room for one spdif out (which was the same situation they ran into with the Link) and were mulling over the choice between coaxial and toslink and came up with this thinking: "Digital out: Coaxial: Many Mid to high end receivers have 3 digital inputs. They often have two toslink and 1 coaxial. They often mark the toslinks TV and DVD players then have a coaxial for ‘other’. Then some that have only 2 digital inputs often will have 1 toslink marked as TV, and 1 coax marked as other or CD … . Hence Coaxial seems like the logical choice."
I'm not sure that that thinking is entirely accurate, but I put in my 2 cents in favor of coax because I happened to have an unused coax input on my receiver, so maybe I'm to blame.
On the other hand, maybe drgeoff is correct and they saved a nickel by going with coax.
