"ShLampen" wrote in message
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In article ,
(Colin) writes:
I think, if you took a Toslink of a given length and a coax of identical
length, and looked at an eye pattern of the datastream you would indeed
see a
difference. And, as you extend the length, these differences would become
more
pronounced.
900 micron plastic fiber is huge by fiber standards. Common multimode
fiber is
50 or 62.5 microns, single mode 8 microns. And the light source is
visible
light in toslink, not the short wavlengths of glass fiber. After only a
few
feet, optical signals in toslink are bouncing all around.
Wow ! someone who appears to know what he is talking about.
It appears that you can learn something on this forum. Thanks Steve!
so for all the experts on this forum that a bit is either there or not and
the olde perennial argument that one a bit of copper wire is the .... has
now migrated to a bit of plastic pipe is the same as another bit and it
don't make no difference, DBT, ABX, tcpip et all.
cat-5 makes good speaker wire ! wouldn't use it for digital :¬)
so we now seen to a viable explanation for what those with EARS have been
saying for a while.
so where is your aural illusion now, (sorry self delusion now) ?
I live in hope of understanding what I hear.
Chris
there are 10 types of idiot.