In Reply to: RE: Toslink suggestions possibly from ebay posted by beppe61 on July 11, 2014 at 05:15:46:
This is the best sounding Toslink cable, IME:
Lifatec Silflex Glass Optisilk Toslink digital optical cable (German-made 470 strands borosilicatec glass optical audio data fibers polished to 1 micron optical finish, all metal connectors, Optisilk jacketing). Worldwide shipping is available:
ITEM # TLTLG-OS - TOSLINK / TOSLINK PREMIUM SILFLEX GLASS CABLES with OPTISILK JACKETING:
http://www.lifatec.com/toslink2.html
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BTW, if you are serious about using Toslink for a computer audio application, I fully recommend the use of a Monarchy Audio DIP (Digital Interface Processor) placed in the signal chain between the computer and DAC.
Here's text from a report I wrote:
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Among the list of audiophile listening cues that are improved include a more open and expansive soundstage, images presented with better resolved spatial cues, and clearly improved ambient information retrieval. On a macro-level, I dare to say there's better PRAT (or so my body tells me such). Dynamics sound more natural, less shouty. Overall, there seems to be less "digititis" in the presentation; less "digital distraction" if you will. A lowered noise floor is quite apparent. Timbral information is less obscured by an unmusical vagueness, while a more authoritative bottom end comes into play. Images have more bloom without added warmth (as-in increased tonal bloom). The leading edge takes on a far more obvious yet sonically benign role in the presentation without sounding edgy — this factor alone makes the Monarchy Audio DIP 48/96 Upsampler a big winner in my audiophile book. I might add that I find the sonic signature of the device to be nominally transparent/neutral to my ear. However, YMMV.
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Monarchy Audio is going out of business, so now is the time to buy one. Deep discount is available for a refurbished model. Worldwide shipping is available.
See link:
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