Phil Leigh;538202 Wrote: > Not really. Light transitions travel just as well through plastic as > "glass" over a few meters. And - to make toslink work - it really > doesn't have to travel all that well. One of my best friends owns a > company that actually makes fibre... It has to handle WAY more > bandwidth than Toslink.. > The real "problem" with toslink/optical are the transition points from > cable to opto-isolator/driver. > There really (almost) isn't such a thing as a "crappy" plastic cable - > but there are badly finished ends that scatter...and poorly fitting > connectors. > Anyway, this is way OT now!
Then it sounds like maybe my plastic toslink cable had some poor termination to make it sound horrible. I'm just glad the hum is gone! -- AudioFrog ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AudioFrog's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9568 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77649 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
