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So I have 2 beolab speakers that im going to connect to a DAC, of course because the speakers are using the Line input for this. One RCA cable needs to be 3 metres long but the other needs to be 5 metres long. I was looking at the chord and QED cables and figured that because i want 2 different lengths that i would buy subwoofer cables because they are single RCA to RCA in 3M and one in 5M rather than buy an interlink cable and end up coiling 2 metres up on the 2 RCA chord / QED cables. Are there differences between interlink and subwoofer cables in the quality of sound that I will get? Is it better to buy an interlink of 5mtrs and coil it up or will it be o.k to use subwoofers and buy 2 with different lengths? A hifi shop said it will be no different in sound because its the same cable internlly but the subwoofer has an extra shielding.

just wanted to say thanks to everyone for there input, my planning was to go either DAC or AVR due to budget and as gorgeous as the Bel Canto is its sadly a bit out of the budget range but thanks for all the great info and suggestions so far.

So this week i have been trying to do some research on the best solution for my situation and this forum has some great info. I have the following beolab 8000 active speakers Sony TV apple tv (second gen) AC Ryan media player Airport express Sony bluray SP370 Digital cable tv set box ipod / ipad doc I would like to make the best of the digital outputs of the above and so started my search for a DAC with a pre-amp because I need volume control for the Beolab speakers after some reading here the Peachtree nova was mentioned. This would mean the following set up I had in mind - connecting the AC ryan, ATV, cable tv box, bluray and airport express using the toslinks and coaxial and then the ac ryan, cable tv box, bluray and ATV are also connected to the tv with HDMI cables. But then someone in a HiFi shop the sales assistant mentioned looking at good AV amps because they have HDMI inputs and one or two toslinks, his point was why use HDMI into the TV for visual and then use the toslink or coax seperately for the sound as HDMI carry a good sound and all AV receivers have a DAC built into them because they need to decode the HDMI sound inputs and toslink inputs. So am I being mislead or would this be a better option. He also did mention that as I would be streaming music via airyplay on my phone and from my mac computer that I would not get the full quality so the peachtree could be a very expensive when a good AV amp does just as good job and allows me to add more things if and when i need to at a later stage. It would mean i could look at more options and that I would put the AC ryan, bluray, ipad dock using apples ipod to HDMI connector) and Apple TV could all go into the amp via HDMI and the airport express would go into the toslink input allowing me to stream music. He did mention the Yamaha RXV-767 which has 7 HDMI inputs and toslink and coax inputs and pre-amp outputs. I have also looked at some other alternatives and see that Marantz have now built in airplay with some of there amps too so this could also be a great solution. I had budgeted around 1000 pounds for either a AV amp or dac with a pre-amp. Would be great to hear some opinions on the above to help me make the best discussion. Many thanks.