Can't compare computer fibre with Toslink. Toslink is driven by a standard LED...
Also, regardless of whether plastic or glass, the cable needs to be round in cross section to avoid asymmetric internal reflections. However, somewhere on these forums is the famous "Sean Adams Toslink abuse" post where he tested Toslink to destruction. Even cutting the fibre and holding the two ends together still worked. Oh yeah, and a lot of studios have used ADAT lightpipe (a variation on Toslink) at some point, and those cables mostly weren't glass... So whatever the plastic is worse at than glass, it's already infected some of the music you are listening to ! I really can't help thinking that a lot of these debates are driven by rational thinking overtaking practical reality. We "know" that the transmission qualities of glass can exceed those of plastic so we assume that a glass cable should sound better. at 5Mb/s over 1m this argument just doesn't hold up. Most modern DACS will clear up any cable-induced jitter by re-clocking. As Sean proved, you have to get pretty brutal with Toslink before you get audible drop outs (data transmission errors) ... YMMV. However, I'm not aware of any proper DBT where glass was "proven" to be superior or even different. Happy to be proven wrong. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal...SB3+Stontronics PSU - Altmann JISCO/UPCI - TACT RCS 2.2X + Good Vibrations S/W - MF Triplethreat(Audiocom full mods)- Linn 5103 - Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Townsend Supertweeters, Kimber & Chord cables Outdoors: Boombox+Creative Sub (If I remember to turn it on...) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=52817 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
