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In Reply to: At about $20.. posted by RickeyM on April 8, 2007 at 11:45:58:
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.
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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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