Amazon Basics Digital Optical Audio Toslink Cable, 6 Feet, Black

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Although the standard is over thirty years old now, it has been refined quite a bit, and modern TOSLINK connections are as useful as ever.

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This cable will work very well in situations where tight bends can create pressures that tend to unseat cheaper interconnects. mm analog (electrical) headphone output, microphone input, or mini-TOSLINK digital (optical) output. Please carefully review the latest versions of all relevant information on the TOSHIBA products, including without limitation data sheets and validate all operating parameters of the TOSHIBA products to ensure that the suggested TOSHIBA products are truly compatible with your design and application. Prior to his current role, Jason spent several years as Editor-in-Chief of LifeSavvy, How-To Geek's sister site focused on tips, tricks, and advice on everything from kitchen gadgets to home improvement. Well I bought a cheap co-axial digital cable and a cheap SPDIF optical lead and for sure the coax sounded dull and flat, I swapped to the optical cable and it was brighter and lively across the whole frequency range.

Cookies collect information about your preferences and your devices and are used to make the site work as you expect it to, to understand how you interact with the site, and to show advertisements that are targeted to your interests. Connect multichannel sound between devices with a single TOSLink cable, the TOSLink connector was originally developed by Toshiba but has now become one of the most common connections for digital audio. S/PDIF is a data link layer protocol as well as a set of physical layer specifications for carrying digital audio signals over either optical or electrical cable.

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Cons: Alas, due to the nature of fiber-optics, you get limited flexibility from the SPDIF cable when compared to ordinary copper cables.A light receiver on one end receives the light signal and decodes it based on the modulation of light. Each data block is given a IEC 61937 preamble, containing two 16-bit sync words and indicating the state and identity (type, validity, bitstream number, length) of encapsulated data present. However, glass and silica cables tend to be less common and more expensive than their plastic counterparts.