Are All Coax/SPDIF Outputs Equal

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Stereosane

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Been wondering about this for a while..

Let's say you have a Blu Ray, Mede8er, Aurender or Olive  Media Player that you use into a Dac through the Coax, should they all sound the same if feed to the same Dac with same quality files or will the Coax output differ in quality amongst them?

I know when I tried a Blu Ray and Mede8er on my old Theta Dac there was a big difference in sound amongst the two, when I tried the same via my Nad M51 Dac there was no difference, the only difference I could think of is that the a Nad re clocks the signal whereas the Theta doesn't , so could it have been the jitter affecting the sound of the Coax output from the source or more how the quality of the Coax output?
 
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