While, thanks to HDMI, Toslink is not so oftenused to connect a DVD player to an A/V receiver, Toslink connectors are commonon cable-boxes, TV sets, subwoofers, all sorts of products. And now, the 3.5mmMini Optical connector, also somewhat incorrectly known as Mini-Toslink, iseverywhere … from the 3.5mm dual-purpose headphone jack on a Mac laptop, toinputs on some of the finest portables.For these many reasons, AudioQuest has refinedand renewed our line of serious high performance OptiLink cables. All modelsand all lengths are now available Toslink to Toslink and Toslink to 3.5mm MiniOptical.
LOWER-DISPERSIONHIGHER-PURITY FIBER CONDUCTORS
The problem with optical fibertransmission is that dispersed light does get through the Toslink cable, but onlyafter it has taken a longer path, like a pool ball bouncing off the side-rails,causing it to arrive later. This delayed part of the signal prevents thecomputer charged with decoding the information from being decoded properly, oreven at all. This reduced bandwidth is a measurable signature of light beingdispersed by a fiber. The punch line: The less dispersion in the fiber, theless distortion in the final analog audio signal presented to
