Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Technical Questions how to connect optical toslink cable?

This is just beating a dead horse now. I bow to your audio expertise.

Mike

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I don't think digital computer connections are relevant in any way. I'm not worried about the sound quality of my USB cable.

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Which is where you're totally confused by the marketing BS. It's just a digital bitstream, not significantly different, with in the context of this conversation from a USB 2.0 connection. So long as all the little ones and zeros get there, the receiver will have the pertinent information to reconstruct the original source data, just like your USB connection. If it didn't reach the receiver intact, you wouldn't have any data to begin with and the result would be garbage.

It's time to agree to disagree. No big deal.

Mike

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... The problem is, the signal is electrical to begin with and in the end it must be converted back to electrical...

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Yuck! Yuck! Yuck! Yet another example of blatant BS by a "high-end" cable vendor.

I very much appreciate how you're handing yourself with all the pressure to "see the light" (no pun intended) from the geek-sci-techies . None of us here is an audio expert, though. The beauty of digital is that it has no affinity to a certain type of data. It doesn't care one bit (I'm trying to watch the puns here) what the data contains -- a video stream, an internet chat, an audio stream, a forum post, etc. It's all made of of just two components: 1 and 0.

I agree that toslink isn't the most secure connection available, and glass/plastic fibers are very susceptible to damage from kinks and tight twists, but undamaged, properly connected, and used within its limits, the data gets there the same as it would over copper.