Wired-Up eforcity 6 Ft Digital Audio Optical Toslink Cable Optic 6Ft

by eForCity

Product Details

• Item Weight: 3 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B000E8X5ZU
• California residents: Click here for Proposition 65 warning.
• Item model number: 6TOS
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (72 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 10, 2004

Product Description

"Connectors: Toslink Male to Toslink Male; Cable Length: 6 feet; OD 5.0; Cable Color: Black; Designed for CD, D/A Converters, Dolby Digital DTS Surround sound receivers, DVD, MiniDisk players and recorders, Pro Audio cards, etc. Compatible with: ADAT, DAW, Dolby Digital, DTS devices with TosLink interface."

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Select Your Seller Carefully For Best Results, July 10, 2010

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David Bower (Houston, Texas, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wired-Up eforcity 6 Ft Digital Audio Optical Toslink Cable Optic 6Ft (Electronics)

Amazon markets this cable under several different headings. You will notice that there are a large number of sellers mentioned. What I discovered is they are not all sending similar cables but, in fact, the cables sent from different sellers differ dramatically.

The picture of the cable shown is an exact photo of the cable sent to me by Eforcity including end cap straps. I had first ordered a cable without checking and got one from SF Planet which was very thin and fragile looking. I contacted SF Planet and even emailed them a photo of the cable they sent and they said this was the regular cable they always send. They offered to refund my money but I have decided to keep the cable for the reasons cited below.

Out of curiosity I checked all of the reviews that had been written and found a wide divergence in experiences with the cable received by the customer. That made me really curious what was going on so I decided to order a cable from Eforcity to see what it was they were sending. As mentioned above the cable they sent looks just like the photo.

I then began to wonder if there was any audible difference between the Eforcity cable and the SF Planet cable; the biggest question I had was signal attenuation. I set up a test comparing a 1,000 cycle test tone with a Radio Shack sound level meter and set the volume control to generate 80 decibels on the sound level meter with the SF Planet cable installed.

I then left all of the equipment exactly as it was and substituted the Eforcity cable and got exactly the same sound level of 80 decibels with that cable as well. It appears the smaller diameter cable for SF Planet is not causing any signal attenuation.

Both cables plugged in and locked but the lock on the SF Planet cable did not produce as tight a feel as the Eforcity cable; that could vary on the hardware being connected.

Update 7-18-2010

A comment from Radio Guy helped me understand more of the nature of the Toslink cable; he pointed out that there was no problem with attenuation with fiber optic cables. I guess that helps explain the results when I tried my little test on the two cables.

I mentioned to him that I had tried to avoid optical cables in the past because I had read the digital coaxial cable was better and more reliable. This optical cable was a matter of necessity as the Toslink output was the only one available.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Thin & Flimsy Optical Digital Cable, September 24, 2008

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K. Wessling "Wiley Retired Prof" (Augusta, GA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wired-Up eforcity 6 Ft Digital Audio Optical Toslink Cable Optic 6Ft (Electronics)

The picture does not represent the product the vendor sends. The picture looks like the heavier duty Opticla cables that are made by Belkin, Monster, and some other companies. What you get is a thin about 1/8" OD cable. It works, but it does not Click firmly into Optical Digital sockets and is not likely to withstand much stress over time. You get what you pay for. If you want better, I'd suggest the Belkin cable.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Works fine but not a solid connection, July 28, 2008

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Kenneth Wexler - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wired-Up eforcity 6 Ft Digital Audio Optical Toslink Cable Optic 6Ft (Electronics)

Works just fine as I'm getting good sound, but I noticed it doesn't "click in place" as solidly as the version I bought and returned to Radio Shack. Since it works fine, I'm fine paying way less than the $17 RS wanted (and do note this was considerably lower than the $50 ABT wanted).