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*DEAD* Hot - 12ft Optical Toslink 2.36 each + sh

Just to post a little note here. if you are looking for the best audio performance you really need to get a glass fiber cable. 99.9% of consumer cables are platic fiber and have alot of jitter (time based inaccuarcies) . most audiophile stick with coax for digital as it has no jitter. if you are looking to minimise jitter and need optical go with a quality glass cable. even the most high end monster cable is still plastic. if you do a search for glass toslink on ebay i think there is a guy selling them pretty cheep. also you can do a search on www.audiogon.com anyways sorry to threat crap 🙁
 
Originally posted by: slappomatt
Just to post a little note here. if you are looking for the best audio performance you really need to get a glass fiber cable. 99.9% of consumer cables are platic fiber and have alot of jitter (time based inaccuarcies) . most audiophile stick with coax for digital as it has no jitter. if you are looking to minimise jitter and need optical go with a quality glass cable. even the most high end monster cable is still plastic. if you do a search for glass toslink on ebay i think there is a guy selling them pretty cheep. also you can do a search on www.audiogon.com anyways sorry to threat crap 🙁
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For most of the folks on here, the plastic toslink cables are just fine. I have 5 pieces of plastic toslink and one with glass. I cannot tell the difference at all between them except for the extra money in my pocket.

If you can tell the difference, you probably won't find a deal on what you're looking for here.
 
Originally posted by: slappomatt
Just to post a little note here. if you are looking for the best audio performance you really need to get a glass fiber cable. 99.9% of consumer cables are platic fiber and have alot of jitter (time based inaccuarcies) . most audiophile stick with coax for digital as it has no jitter. if you are looking to minimise jitter and need optical go with a quality glass cable. even the most high end monster cable is still plastic. if you do a search for glass toslink on ebay i think there is a guy selling them pretty cheep. also you can do a search on www.audiogon.com anyways sorry to threat crap 🙁
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Your information is correct. But if you are an AV phile to consider monster cable as a quality product is purely propostrious. Monster makes some of the worst over price cables on the market. (Ie: Have you seen there hdmi cable) lol, Have you seen there craptastic componet cables.

These cables will work for 99.999999999999999999999999999% of the crowd out there. Before you notice audio loss from a plastic optical cable you would probably need a reiceiver in the $1000 range, Clean power, High quality speakers, Sound pads and dapening, etc. Most people dont have this setup in their living room.

These cables are fine.
 
I would agree with the statement that these cables are fine. I have a remote media center setup where every cable is stretched out over 20'. The optical toslink cable works flawlessly pumping out DTS signals to my receiver and it was just a no brand cable I picked up on Amazon.

I would never lay out the kind of jack the fools at Monster Cable expect people to pay for their crap. They must be doing some fabulously potent drugs over there at Monster is all I can say. I get a case of the giggles every time I come across thier prices.
 
Since TOSlink is a digital transmission, it *has* to work at 100% to work at all. It is comparable to making copies of a CD-R or transferring a file across your network. Absolutely all the bits have to get there for it to work at all. 'expensive' TOSlink or digital COAX cables are made to purely satisfy the 'more expensive = better' and 'it sounds logical enough' parts of the brain. Because the transmission is digital (by way of light in TOSlink and electricity in COAX) there is no loss or interuption of the signal. Conversion happens after reception/transmission at both ends.
 
Jitter is only an issue with PCM. Anything else is jitter proof. But I agree coax is the way to go instead of these flimsy things.
 
Question from a neophyte here:

The prices from the monoprice website for some items seem almost "too good to be true". I comparison shopped the toslink cable (via pricewatch/pricegrabber) and some cat 5 and cat 6 ethernet cables (via outpost.com). These just happened to be some items I was looking for in New Orleans, and net retailers are ususally much less expensive than local stores. In all cases monoprice was less than half the price of any other B&M or net retailer, before shipping costs were added (and the shipping costs seemed reasonable).

Can someone on the Forums vouch for this company?
Better safe than sorry.

Thanks from The Big Easy: French Quarter Fest 4/22-3/6, Jazz Fest 4/27-5/7/6
 
Originally posted by: br1
Can someone on the Forums vouch for this company?
Better safe than sorry.

Thanks from The Big Easy: French Quarter Fest 4/22-3/6, Jazz Fest 4/27-5/7/6
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I bought about $80 of stuff from them (box must have had 15 lbs of wire in it) last year - no complaints at all with the transaction!
 
Thanx 🙂

Sorry for seeming nutty, but I have had a credit card messed with by a bogus seller in the past.
Sounds like I can buy in confidence.
 
Originally posted by: br1
Question from a neophyte here:

The prices from the monoprice website for some items seem almost "too good to be true". I comparison shopped the toslink cable (via pricewatch/pricegrabber) and some cat 5 and cat 6 ethernet cables (via outpost.com). These just happened to be some items I was looking for in New Orleans, and net retailers are ususally much less expensive than local stores. In all cases monoprice was less than half the price of any other B&M or net retailer, before shipping costs were added (and the shipping costs seemed reasonable).

Can someone on the Forums vouch for this company?
Better safe than sorry.

Thanks from The Big Easy: French Quarter Fest 4/22-3/6, Jazz Fest 4/27-5/7/6
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Not that you sound like you need any more assurance, but I can say that Monoprice ROCKS. Bought several orders worth of stuff in the past, very satisfied 😎
 
Jee,

As you folks have stated, talk about fast, I already have both my order and UPS tracking numbers. That rates a double smiley face and a Jim Cramer Mad Money "Boo Yah" at 11:30 pm on a school night in the Big Easy 🙂 🙂


Now if the Corps of Engineers can finish our levees as fast....
 
Monoprice is great, high quality items at rock bottom prices. Even avsforum people seem satisfied with the quality. Im using their hdmi and toslink cables in my theater and its great.
 
Another :thumbsup: for Monoprice. I don't know how they do it, but all of the stuff I've ordered from them has been top notch. Pricing is very reasonable and on my last order the next-day morning shipping was something like 50 cents more than the cheapest shipping option. That was a pleasant surprise.
 
Wished I had heard of this company before I sunk my cash into cables from amazon sell thru... cables for less or some such.

Regarding toslink vs. coax... if toslink is inferior, which I don't buy, why is it still present in the marketplace?
 
Originally posted by: JasonCoder
Wished I had heard of this company before I sunk my cash into cables from amazon sell thru... cables for less or some such.

Regarding toslink vs. coax... if toslink is inferior, which I don't buy, why is it still present in the marketplace?
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People don't buy products based on their factual quality. They buy what they're told or believe is superior. Transferring data with light is 'cool' and 'futuristic', therefore it must be better.

Like has been mentioned, at worst only PCM audio is affected, at best no audio is affected. If your receiver has a transport buffer, the method of transfer is entirely irrelevant.
 
I am another satisfied monoprice customer. I used to work for a company that made a fair percentage of their profits from selling overpriced "audiophile" grade cables and I can say that I've never been able to tell a difference in audio quality based on cable brand or perceived quality. The fact that the company I refer to is now out of business may say something about the true value of those products.
 
I can recommend these cables. I love Monoprice and I bought a 6ft optical cable (same "version" as the one listed here) and it is very nice for the money. It feels like it should cost a lot more.
 
Can I ask the others that prefer coax out there why they do? It would seem to me that both cables would suffer the same jitter problems while coax would be much more susceptible to RF on the shield (albeit, the interference would have to be large enough to cause bit errors, but optical wouldn't suffer this problem at all.) As a EE, I'm always interested in learning.
 
Originally posted by: disc
Can I ask the others that prefer coax out there why they do? It would seem to me that both cables would suffer the same jitter problems while coax would be much more susceptible to RF on the shield (albeit, the interference would have to be large enough to cause bit errors, but optical wouldn't suffer this problem at all.) As a EE, I'm always interested in learning.
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See, that's what I was thinking, and why I went with optical. Not because it is cool and futuristic. As a side benefit, would it not also be harder to incur a ground loop from other equipment?
 
Correct, JasonCoder. You will not get a ground loop using an optical TOSlink cable. You can however have a ground loop from a Coaxial digital cable. It usually means it is laying along side a "Cable company" cable or power cable especially for long runs.
 
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