What is the advantage of optical TOSLINK over RCA coaxial cable?
Mar 29, 2018 · TOSLINK receivers have a lot more random noise than what would be added by a coax (the photodiode signal is weak and must be amplified), but this isn't the main cause. It is actually band-limiting. Coax SPDIF is usually AC-coupled with a cap or transformer-coupled. This adds a high-pass on top of the natural low-pass nature of any transmission ...
Best Audio Optical Fibre Cable (TOSLINK)? - Steve Hoffman Music …
May 16, 2019 · After some previous bad experiences with cheap TOSLINK cables (noise, distortion, frequency cut, unstable sound), I found this Premium quality cable. What is your experience about this kind of products? 00122263 Hama Audio Optical Fibre Cable, ODT plug (Toslink), metal, 3.0 m | hama.com
RCA digital vs toslink optical | Steve Hoffman Music Forums
Feb 13, 2016 · From what I've heard and experienced, relative results will depend on several factors. First, the quality of the interconnects. There are good and bad Toslink cables, and good and bad S/PDIF (RCA) ones. If you use the latter, make sure the cable (and maybe the connectors) are designed for 75-ohm digital audio, and not for analog audio.
affordable best toslink DAC, any suggestion - Steve Hoffman …
Dec 13, 2024 · Topping E30II lite, optical from wiim mini in bedroom system the Dac is under £100 on Amazon UK as good as anything I have heard at over 3 times the price, IMHO any budget toslink at this price point, I use an Audioquest forest.
How does an optical (toslink) to HDMI cable/converter work?
Jan 5, 2019 · Therefore the adapter gets power from soundbar HDMI connector and it has a TOSLINK input to receive optical S/PDIF digital audio stream from the TV. The same S/PDIF stream is then sent to the soundbar over the UTIL pin in HDMI connector almost as if it were a coaxial S/PDIF signal, the electrical specs are only slightly different.
Is there such a thing as a USB to Toslink or S/PDIF cable?
Sep 21, 2021 · Unfortunately, Schiit no longer makes or sells a Gen 5 USB card and I haven't been able to locate one on Ebay or elsewhere. I'm thinking that maybe I can find a cable or adapter that is USB one one end and Toslink or SPDIF on the other. So far I haven't been able to find one, and I don't know if that would even work.
Question about optical connections - Steve Hoffman Music Forums
Nov 26, 2019 · Toslink got a bad rap back in the eighties and nineties when crappy parts and implementation resulted in nasty jitter. Some manufacturers actually cared and put some effort into it (Chord Electronics comes to mind). Toslink can sound terrific. With a nice glass cable and proper connectors Toslink will pass 24/192 without issue.
anyone here using a Roku with Toslink output?
Nov 9, 2024 · There's at least one model, the XDS 2100X that has Toslink, there may be others. The other option would be to keep my existing Roku and get an audio extractor, HDMI in with Toslink and HDMI out, but that's another box, power supply and HDMI cable.
Slowest transmission speed supported by TOSLINK TX and RX?
It seems that most or all Toslink transmitters have bandwidth right down to DC. On the other hand, most Toslink receivers require a minimum of 100kHz for the modulation frequency for the part to function. That's too bad, because Toslink is a very practical medium for electrically isolated communication and the TX or RX hardware, as well as the ...
Is an optical connection enough for hi-res audio?
Jul 2, 2023 · The Toshiba transmit and receive optical devices commonly used in the past for TOSLINK digital audio have a maximum data rate of 6Mbit/s, so can handle 96k audio data provided duty cycle isn't far from 50%. Some of the newer models have extended bandwidth to 10 or 12Mb/s, so can do 192k with good data.