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!


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