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I just ordered a couple of supposedly high quality glass optical Toslink cables. I'm currently using generic rat shack or something. These are for my 400 disk Sony CD changer and my satellite dish. Both have only the Toslink output option, no coax output. I do have a coax digital output on my Sony 9000ES DVD/SACD player. I'm using a Better Cables Silver Serpent there.This may have been beaten to death already, but would anyone care to share their experiences with plastic Toslink, vs glass Toslink, vs digital coax? I'd be interested to know if you think there are any real world differences in their sonic characteristics. I saw one comment that a guy liked the glass Toslink better than his Silver Serpent coax...but that was included in an advertisment. Thanks.
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Got my glass cables yesterday. On my system, there seems to be a subtle improvement in detail...but very subtle. My speakers are still breaking in and a little sloppy in the bass yet, so that may be obscuring my perception. I'll have to change out cables again once my bass has tightned up with speaker break in.
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Toshiba designed the Toslink interface with several things in mind. They chose a large diameter cable so it could be manufactured from plastic instead of glass for reasonable consumer acceptance (cost wise).The bandwidth specification of the Toslink interface is only 6 mHz. This is miniscule compared to average glass fiber optic connections.
The bottom line is that it is easy to transfer a 3 mHz signal, either Toslink or coaxial. Toshiba took fibre optic technology and designed an interface with performance satisfactory to transfer a digital audio signal.
Glass fibre optic cables are needed for gHz bandwidths. It does not logically nor techically follow that using a glass fibre cable means a digital audio signal will sound better.
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Sounded fuller and warmer and better detail than anything else i tried in my system. 100 dollar monter toslink, kimber Digital-X coax, and DIY MAx Rochlin Memorial with xtra shielding and cap.I could not hear the difference between the the wire world supernova III+ and the $29 one i have (that you also probably bought) from Ebay.
Sam...so you're saying that you heard no difference between the Supernova III and the $29 Glass cable that we both have. How 'bout between the Glass (Ebay) cable and the Monter Toslink?
Never mind...I re-read your post. It was the $100 "monter" cable that threw me off...do you have a lisp? So you liked the glass toslinks best, and equally well. Glad I didn't spend any more on the cable....sounds like the "Glass" toslink is a good bargin. Thanks again.
The only advantage i could find of the Supernova over the Finest Glass Toslink is the toslink connector itself. While very good, still not as "positive" in grip and click as the Supernova or the Monster.I guess i'm gonna sell the Monster Toslink and the Digital-X. I'm keeping the Supernova because i have 3 optical components now. 2 of them with the Finest Glass stuff an the the other with the Supernova.
In my system between an ARC CD player and a ML 360S CD processer, the glass toslink bettered the coax.
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