What is the advantage of optical TOSLINK over RCA coaxial cable?
Mar 29, 2018 · The standard specifies multiple interconnection types with RCA coaxial cables and optical TOSLINK being two most popular. Commonly in audio manuals, it is commonly noted …
S/Pdif coax vs Toslink. Does it matter? - Steve Hoffman Music …
Feb 3, 2020 · With a toslink connection there are no physical ground connections between gear. With coax the shields are generally connected at both ends of the cables. This means that the …
Coaxial vs. Optical for a 16-bit CD player - Steve Hoffman Music …
Apr 5, 2022 · Today Toslink is 2 channel, 24 bit , 96 kHz PCM audio max. Obvious the bandwidth of coax is higher but in practice modern Toslink can perform better (I can do 176 kHz over …
Can optical cable carry 192/24? - Steve Hoffman Music Forums
Mar 15, 2018 · It is not just the cable, it is also the speed of the optical transmitter at one end and the optical receiver at the other. 192/24 is a bit rate of 4.6Mbps, and the fastest transmitter and …
Best Audio Optical Fibre Cable (TOSLINK)?
May 16, 2019 · After some previous bad experiences with cheap TOSLINK cables (noise, distortion, frequency cut, unstable sound), I found this Premium quality cable....
Connecting CD player to external DAC via toslink
Oct 8, 2025 · Trying to connect a Technics SL-PD9 to a Schitt Modi 3+ via toslink, but not getting a signal. Optical cable has the red light on both ends, so at...
DSD over PCM Vs "fake" I²S to DAC. - Steve Hoffman Music Forums
Sep 8, 2024 · The "Chinese HDMI audio extractor" is a device that takes the audio out from a standard HDMI port, either DSD or PCM, and outputs either of them as S/PDIF, TosLink and …
How does an optical (toslink) to HDMI cable/converter work?
Jan 5, 2019 · My goal is to extract digital Audio from Optical TOSLINK from my Audio Interface and then send this digital audio signal into an HDMI input for further processing.
24/192 over SPDIF - already possible? - Steve Hoffman Music …
Mar 21, 2012 · Cheap TOSLINK really doesn't have the bandwidth for high sample rates if you want to maintain low jitter on the recovered clock, but it will still work. Coax has some of the …
Need an optical cable, any recommendations? - Steve Hoffman …
Sep 5, 2024 · I really liked this one. Supra ZAC Toslink Optisk Cable. I actually preferred it over an expensive Coax cable. Cheapest place to buy it is here: ZAC Toslink Optisk Cable - 2 …