In Reply to: the old coax vs. optical test in digital cabling posted by bartc on April 8, 2007 at 07:43:34:
" Do really good opticals surpass coax at some price point???Just curious, not spending any money as yet. "
That's about what you can get a "glass fiber" Toslink IC for. The glass fiber Toslink's have about six times the bandwidth of the plastic ones. These glass fiber Toslink's can pretty much out do anybody's plastic ones and at a pretty good savings too.
I got mine on Ebay.
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