AudioQuest - Carbon - Optical Digital Audio Cable (Single)

AudioQuest - Carbon - Optical Digital Audio Cable (Single)

While, thanks to HDMI, Toslink is not so often used to connect a DVD player to an A/V receiver, Toslink connectors are common on cable-boxes, TV sets, subwoofers, all sorts of products. For these many reasons, AudioQuest has refined and renewed their Carbon line of serious high performance OptiLink cables. All lengths are now available Toslink to Toslink.

The problem with optical fiber transmission is that dispersed light does get through the Toslink cable, but only after it has taken a longer path, like a pool ball bouncing off the side-rails, causing it to arrive later. This delayed part of the signal prevents the computer charged with decoding the information from being decoded properly, or even at all. This reduced bandwidth is a measurable signature of light being dispersed by a fiber.

The punch line? The less dispersion in the fiber, the less distortion in the final analog audio signal presented to our ears.