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Yes, but exactly that's the point: where a coax cable has to be really crappy to distort that much, a fiber might reach that level easier, because (at least so they say, I have no experience in that) the optical converters are usually built in such a low quality in the common DVD players and...

IMHO it's not the matter of not transmitting at all, but with weak quality, not nicely shaped square waves but heavily distorted ones. It may reach a level where the receiver will sometimes get wrong bits (or right ones, but at wrong time: jitter), and that'll definitely affect the sound quality.

AFAIK coax is definitely the better in the case of these things: the optical conversion is made of so scrap parts, that might even effect the otherwise unsensitive-to-transfer-quality digital stream (at high-end equipments with quality electrical-optical-electrical conversion, there really is no...

What's the max setting on these models? I have a smaller and older 4200, and it can go somewhat beyond 0 dB: (if I remember right) with subwoofer set to on +5dB is the max, and set to off it can reach +15 dB - but with so much noise, that it really does not worth it. I found the CD listening...

I guess you're right, it might be the Marantz, indeed. I have a 4200 since december and had some fight with the hungarian distributor - because of the hiss this amp produces. This once so respectable company now lies without any shame in the spec sheet... Not only about power, but they stated...