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 …
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 …
S/Pdif coax vs Toslink. Does it matter? - Steve Hoffman Music …
Feb 2, 2020 · Ground loops are caused when there are duplicate ground paths between components. With a toslink connection there are no physical ground connections between …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Is there a preference on DAC connection to preamp? toslink or RCA?
Jan 27, 2018 · From the very beginning of outboard DACs, such as the Musical Fidelity Digilog and Aragon D2A, TosLink was the least favored. We have consistently read that the RCA …
DSD over PCM Vs "fake" I²S to DAC. - Steve Hoffman Music Forums
Sep 8, 2024 · The last time I used a TosLink cable was back in the late 1990's between a Marantz CD67 CD player and a Sony Mini Disc deck. TosLink connection is known for having more …
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 …
Inline Digital Attenuator? - Steve Hoffman Music Forums
Oct 2, 2020 · The situation I'm in is of using a digital recorder, an Alesis Masterlink, fed from a Toslink optical output, through a Toslink to Coaxial converter, into the Alesis coaxial digital …