AmazonBasics Digital Optical Audio Toslink Cable, 6 Foot
Posted by Notcot on Apr 4, 2010 in Portable Sound & Vision |
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Firstly this is another product which uses Amazon’s ‘Fraustration Free’ packaging – i.e. two cardboard boxes, one larger than the other. I can see the point because of the recycling aspect but they can’t fit through a standard letterbox so thank goodness for our porch!
Secondly, I’ve absolutely no complaints about the product itself, it’s very flexible for an optical cable and has high quality mouldings which lock very firmly into the sockets of the units you’re trying to connect. It’s a very useful length and has good light transmission quality. I think it’s an excellent product for the price – go Amazon Basics!
Rating: 5 / 5
True, this cable does what it sets out to do, and one fibre optical cable is pretty much as good as another so long as its looked after – the only real difference being how robust they are.
Teh Toslink connector is a standard so you shoudl have no problems with lose connections unless you get a very very poor quality cable.
Personally I have tended to use Fisual cables and for optical Toslink cables they are very good.
You can get a Fisual Digital Optical Toslink Cable – 5m Special for less than the price of the 2m Amazon cable, or even a Fisual Digital Optical Toslink Cable – 10m Special for the same price.
My advice – go for the Fisual.
The Fisual cables have a softer more flexible feel to the cable sheath, but do a more than adequate job of protecting the cable as the inner sheath is stronger.
Plus Amazon;s no-nonsense packaging is a bit of a joke when they send this in a box inside another bigger box! Yes, you don’t end up slicing your pingers open trying to get into a blister pack, but whats wrong with just one box, or even a decent jiffy bag?
Rating: 3 / 5
A most useful and practical cable enabling various devices to be connected using the optical links found on numerous audio and other devices.
But it is worth mentioning the packaging. A simple inexpensive yet sturdy cardboard box; so easy and safe to open, not struggling with that dreadful impenetrable plastic wrapping so frequently encountered, no broken fingernails or pierced skin. Easily recycled too (or more material for the compost heap!). More manufactures should follow this example.
Rating: 5 / 5
No nonsense, no mess, no rubbish. It’s a standard optical audio cable.
It feels far studier then other optical cables. I especially like how flexible it is – perfect for snaking through the jungle of wires at the back of my TV!
Definitely recommend, no reason to buy any other optical cable
Rating: 5 / 5
Well… not much you can say to review a cable, especially when it’s transferring digital signal with no risk of RF pickup. But I can compare it against the prices I saw in various shops where you’d expect to pay around double the cost of this Amazon branded product. I really can’t see any reason why you’d pay more for an optical connection unless the specification (cable length, colour, whatever) didn’t suit you. It does the job intended.
I’ve used it to link fairly low end products (dvb tuner, old stereo) to some far superior audio equipment and I’m sure that anything I could claim to hear in terms of tone, noise or audio artefact is the fault of these sources and not the cable. It’s certainly producing a better result than the standard analogue stereo cable I had used in the past.
Can’t go wrong really…
Rating: 4 / 5