My suggestion is in Reston, VA, in my apartment, where I'll soon have a kegerator, but others can suggest times and places too. So option 1: Nov 18, Reston, VA.
Opinions differ about the various qualities of coax and toslink.
Toslink is a better option on inexpensive gear, because you have fewer problems with jitter induced by impedance mismatch.
Except that you're not pushing anything into the noise floor when you use a digital volume control. Bits is dynamics, sample rate is resolution. Once the recording is mastered, the noise floor is set.
I've got a 629, a combat commander 1911, a sig 239 9mm, a kahr mk9, a keltec p32, a couple of ww2 lugers, an hk tactical 45, and a dwm .25. Being somewhat intoxicated, I might be missing one or two...
Ok, how about "You may be a music lover, but you should wait until you've heard more music to spout off at others" if you haven't been to X (well over 50) live performances and/or own X (well over 100) pieces of recorded audio. (I'm not suggesting this is a myth)