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In Reply to: the old coax vs. optical test in digital cabling posted by bartc on April 8, 2007 at 07:43:34:
" Do really good opticals surpass coax at some price point???Just curious, not spending any money as yet. "
That's about what you can get a "glass fiber" Toslink IC for. The glass fiber Toslink's have about six times the bandwidth of the plastic ones. These glass fiber Toslink's can pretty much out do anybody's plastic ones and at a pretty good savings too.
I got mine on Ebay.
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Problem with the cheap multiple glass strands toslink is that they fracture easily. Once fractured, plastic is way better.
I think, not heard yet, that multiple platic strands are the way to go.
I bought 2 on ebay... a sonicwave and something else. The main difference between the two was the number of strands (65 vs. 260). One of them I could not dinstinguish it from a platic monocore sonically. The other one presented more "grain". When I looked at one end while passing light through, I could see strands, and light intensity was very uneven across the section and never bright. When you look at light through a mono-core plastic, it looks like a LED and it is intense. I understand that theoritically glass optical cables are much better, but I am not so sure about the cheap offerings we see on ebay or partsexpress.
Well, I can say from experience that glass is better than plastic. Also, I emailed the company I got my cables from and asked them how careful do I need to be with my cables so as not to fracture the glass. Their response: "It is very difficult to damage the glass optical fibers in our cables. You would have to bend and put a "kink" in the cable for that to happen. Normal use and even dropping the cable will not break the fibers".
Mine haven't, but what do I know, I just plug 'em in and let them sit there.
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