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3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Glass Toslink outclasses Plastic Toslink Oct 12, 2008
By Gary Proctor
"SIAEC L0952"
If you are still using a plastic Toslink cable, it's time to invest $50 and try this glass Toslink cable. Audiophiles have long frowned upon the merits of this medium of digital datastream transfer and always placing Toslink at the bottom of the list. In some ways, the Glass Toslink outperforms lesser S/PDIF cables that sell for much higher prices although my preference is still for Glass AT&T or AES/EBU if your equipment can support such. For the asking price, this is a serious consideration to be explored with surprisingly positive results.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 Best Toslink Cable I have owned Oct 18, 2009
By J. B Kraft
"lonestargazer"
Over the years since they were introduced, I have bought Toslink cables ranging in price from $10 to $125, from everybody from Radioshack to Monster, including their premium lines. The construction -- especially of the connectors is very find, and they have a more "positive" connection than most others I have used. The cable is nice and flexible and appears well-shielded in a fairly soft rubbery exterior. I would have preferred Cablestogo use some of their woven nylon to sheath the cable in, because those are so tough -- especially when you put tension on the cables when you are trying to work on the back of your equipment. Sound qualify seems excellent -- as good as the HDMI it replaced for audio.
3 of 4 found the following review helpful:
Works right out of the box Aug 02, 2010
By JPL Engineer
First let me say I'm not using this in some sort of high-end $10K+ system. I've had a FIOS receiver for the past 2.5 years connected by component video and TOS cable. Well recently the audio starting cutting out and just jiggling the TOS cable on the receiver end would bring it back. This old TOS cable was some no-name cheap plastic fiberoptic design.
Enter Cables to Go. I researched the many TOS cables out there and didn't want to spend $100-$500 for some high end cable that wouldn't benefit me more than this $25 cable would. What is important to note is the glass/quartz multi-stranded fiberoptic construction as opposed to a single strand plastic fiber. I have no way to prove this is what happened, but what I believe started my audio failing was the plastic fiber clouding up over the past couple of years. It may have been constructed with some type of plastic that becomes opaque after years of being exposed to the LED of the TOS connector. The optical signal was thus marginal at the amplifier end causing it to cut out when the light amplitude starting falling. Bottomline is, glass shouldn't have any of these deterioration issues over time.
Now it stands to reason most of these A/V cable companies don't make the actual cable. You'd need make miles and miles of cable to make it worthwhile to do that so more than likely Cables to Go buys their shielded and fiberoptic cable from some OEM. If you search around, you'll come to find that 280 strands of fiberoptic cable can be had from a few other manufacturers so that goes to show it is some commonly produced OEM cable and Cables to Go buys it in bulk and terminates it with their own TOS connectors.
That being said, the connectors are of a very nice metal construction and snap solidly into the TOS connection. I picked Cables to Go because their Sonicwave cable had been reviewed elsewhere with positive reviews and didn't seem like some fly-by-night outfight that wanted to charge $100+ for a cable only worth $20-$25.
The only reason I'm not giving 5 stars is the wasteful packaging. I have no problem with color and glizty photos on a box, but their cable comes in a reinforced flip-open box with 2 magnetic snaps on the side to keep the lid closed when not in use. Similar to a hard-covered book, it seemed like a waste for packaging a TOS cable but I did toss it in the recycle bin after I installed the cable.
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