Available in full size or 3.5 mini - full size. AudioQuest Cinnamon Digital Optical Cable While, thanks to HDMI, Toslink is not so often used to connect a DVD player to an A/V receiver, Toslink connectors are common on cable-boxes, TV sets, subwoofers, all sorts of products. And now, the 3.5mm Mini Optical connector, also somewhat incorrectly known as Mini-Toslink, is everywhere … from the 3.5mm dual-purpose headphone jack on a Mac laptop, to inputs on some of the finest portables. For these many reasons, AudioQuest has refined and renewed our line of serious high performance OptiLink cables. All models and all lengths are now available Toslink to Toslink and Toslink to 3.5mm Mini Optical. Available Lengths: 0.75m-16m The digital optical series of cables from AudioQuest are: Pearl Forest Cinnamon Carbon Vodka Diamond All optical cables come either full size or 3.5mm mini. Features: Lower-Dispersion Higher Purity Fiber Low-Jitter (Digital Timing Errors) Finely Polished Optical Interface 0m & Longer - In-Wall Rated PVC LOWER-DISPERSION HIGHER-PURITY FIBER CONDUCTORS The problem with optical fiber transmission is that dispersed light does get through the Toslink cable, but only after 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 the computer charged with decoding the information from being decoded properly, or even at all. This reduced bandwidth is a measurable signature of light being dispersed by a fiber. The punch line: The less dispersion in the fiber, the less distortion in the final analog audio signal presented to our ears.
