Audioquest Cinnamon OptiLink Tosink-Toslink Connector
€79.00
per Piece incl. VAT / excl. 6.90 € shipping
Available again from 20.09.2025
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Low-scatter, purer fiber
jitteram (jitter: digital timing errors)
precision polished fiber ends
The possibilities opened up by HDMI, USB, FireWire © and Ethernet connections ensure a lot of movement on the audio front. However, the current generation of digital technologies is only part of the story; The challenge of designing, manufacturing, and selecting the best analog cables and speaker cables remains, but still. S / PDIF (Sony © Philips Digital InterFace), which appeared at the same time as the CD in 1983, is still part of the audio world. S / PDIF is carried over digital coax and Toslink fibers, making them still the most important cables in electronic entertainment.
While HDMI is more commonly used than Toslink to connect a DVD player to an AV receiver, Toslink connections are more common for cable receivers, TVs, subwoofers, and all sorts of other products. In the meantime, the 3.5 mm mini-plug, also somewhat incorrectly called mini-Toslink, can be found almost everywhere. from the 3.5mm headphone jack on a Mac laptop to inputs on some of the highest quality portable devices.
For these reasons, we at AudioQuest have improved and renewed our line of high-performance OptiLink cables. All models and lengths are now available in Toslink-to-Toslink and Toslink-to-3.5mm miniplug versions.
The question 'How can a fiber optic cable change the sound?' is easier to answer than for any other cable type. If the light source were a coherent laser beam emitted in a vacuum, the light bundles would remain straight and all arrive at their destination at the same time. Even if the LED light source in a Toslink system were to shine continuously, the light would be scattered when it entered the fiber optic cable due to defects and impurities in the fibers. This can be measured as an amplitude loss; however, the amplitude is not the problem: 50% loss would have no effect on the sound quality.
The problem is that the scattered light does get through the cable, but does not travel the direct route - comparable to a billiard ball that is played over the board and thus takes longer than the one that rolls on the direct route to get to yours Goal arrives. This missing piece of the signal prevents the computer responsible for decoding from doing its job properly - or at all. The difficulties with decoding first become apparent at the higher frequencies (not audio frequencies, since this is a monostream of digital audio information), so that the reduced bandwidth is a measurable proof of the scattering of the light by the fibers. The consequence: the less scattering in the fiber, the less distortion in the audio signal that ultimately reaches our ears.
There is another serious spread mechanism in the Toslink system. The fiber is relatively thick at 1.0 mm in diameter and the LED light source is also relatively large, so that the light is 'sprayed' into the fiber at many different angles. Even if the fiber were absolutely perfect, there would be time shifts in the signal because the light bundles enter the fiber at different angles and therefore travel different distances until they arrive with different delays. A comprehensive solution to this problem is hundreds of significantly smaller ones Combine fibers into a 1.0 mm bundle. As a result, the angles at which the light can enter this fiber are limited, there are significantly fewer differences and thus less scattering over time. This effect achieved by the narrow opening is comparable to the principle of a pinhole camera that can take photos without a lens: by allowing the light to pass through only at a limited angle, the camera can take a photo - if the lens were from a camera with a larger one Remove the opening, photography would be impossible. Less light passes through a multi-fiber cable, but the light that travels through the cable arrives at the other end in a much smaller time window.
The problem is the scattering of the light over a certain period of time - two ways lead to better results: less scattering in the fiber (better polymers and ultimately quartz) and less scattering due to the limitation of the entrance angle. Simple but true. Listen and enjoy.
| Condition: | new item |
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| Lengths in meters: | 0.75 |
| Product type: | electric wire |
Manufacturer
The Quest Group (AudioQuest)
2621 White Road
Irvine 92614
United States of America
info@audioquest.com
EU Representative
The Quest Group BV
Hoge Bergen 10
4704 RH Roosendaal
The Netherlands
info@audioquest.nl
Safety Information
Product-specific safety instructions can be found in the operating manual.