"Dave Platt" wrote in message


If you only need a short cable, I see that Radio Shack
currently has a 3-foot "composite video cable, and
TOSLINK optical cable" combination on sale for $2.48
(!!). Catalog nubmer 15-1591. You could buy this, hook
up *both* cables (a composite-video cable is 75 ohms, and
is close to ideal for a digital-audio coax link), and
switch your A/V receiver back and forth to see whether
you can hear a difference.

I managed to pick up a number of these in both 3 foot and 12
foot lengths. I think the 12 footers were about $7, marked
down from about $40.

Both the toslink and coax parts of the cable are nicely
made, with special mention for the relatively limber toslink
portion.

Since I was interested in just the Toslink portions, I split
the coax parts off and set them aside.

BTW, the application was interfacing two ADA8000s to an
02R96.