AudioQuest Pearl OptiLink Toslink Cable Optisches Digital Cable (Toslink-Toslink), 8 m

all boring these days with the pleasure possible via HDMI USB FireWire and Ethernet connections. However, these current generation digital technologies are only part of the story, as well as the challenge of designing manufacturing and choosing the best analog interconnects and speaker cables is as important as ever. The S/P-DIF (Sony Philips Digital InterFace) that arrived in 1983 along with the CD is still a very important part of our world today. S/P-DIF is transmitted via Digital Coax and Toslink (EIA-J) optics making them still some of the most important cables in electronic entertainment. While thanks to HDMI Toslink is not used so often to connect a DVD player to an A/V receiver Toslink connectors are common in cable boxes TV sets subwoofers all kinds of products. And now the mini optical 3.5mm jack aka incorrectly known as Mini-Toslink is everywhere, from the 3.5mm dual-purpose headphone jack on a Mac laptop to the inputs on some of the best laptops. For these many reasons, AudioQuest has refined and revamped our line of high performance serious OptiLink cables. All models and all lengths are now available Toslink to Toslink and Toslink to 3.5mm mini optics. When the question is, how can a fiber optic cable change the sound? the answer is easier to explain than for almost any other type of cable. If the light source were a coherent laser firing in a vacuum, all the light would remain straight reaching its destination at the same time. Even if the LED light source in a Toslink system was consistent, light entering a fiber optic cable is scattered and scattered by imperfections and impurities in the fiber. This can be measured as a loss of amplitude, but amplitude is not the problem that an actual loss of 50% would have no effect on sound quality. The problem is that scattered light goes through the cable, but only after it has taken a longer path like a billiard ball bouncing off the side rails causing it to come