Glass vs Plastic Optical cable. Any difference

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  • ht_addict
    Senior Member
    • Dec 2002
    • 508

    Glass vs Plastic Optical cable. Any difference

    Just curious if there is any difference in performance when it comes to glass vs plastic for optical cables. I know of a website that has glass ones priced similar to plastic ones.

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  • David Meek
    Moderator Emeritus
    • Aug 2000
    • 8938

    #2
    I'd go with glass given the choice, even though it is somewhat more fragile than the plastic equivalent. But then, I'm a bit of a traditionalist. YMMV.




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    • aud19
      Twin Moderator Emeritus
      • Aug 2003
      • 16706

      #3
      I'd be a little wary of a glass cable the same price as a plactic one. Either that's a very expensive plastic cable or a cheap glass one. Glass tends to offer better sound quality at the expense of fragility and well...expense Plastic offers lesser quality but more durability at a more affordable price... Personally if you can, I'd recommend a good quality digital coax over a mediocre optical cable and likely they'd be the same price. The best solution would be to audition three similarly priced versions of each at home and see which one you like the sound of, like any equipment, ... but this isn't easy to do with online ordering... Perhaps Doug could make a good suggestion based on your price range, equipment and taste.

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      • Bam!
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        • Jan 2004
        • 2458

        #4
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        • ht_addict
          Senior Member
          • Dec 2002
          • 508

          #5
          Here's a pic of the cable. Looks well constructed.



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          • ht_addict
            Senior Member
            • Dec 2002
            • 508

            #6
            Just received the cable today but haven't been able to test it out. Cable is well constructed from the gold metal ends to the tubing coating cover the glass fiber optics. Definitely worth the $$

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            • Chris D
              Moderator Emeritus
              • Dec 2000
              • 16877

              #7
              You know, I've wondered about this, too. I can see different grades of digital coax cable making a difference. And that coax vx. optical makes a difference, because of the different D/A converters. But for two given pieces of equipment, one optical out, the other optical in, I'm not seeing why the grade of optical cable should make a difference at all. Unless one cable is broken and can't pass light, when the light reaches the other end of the cable, it's still light. I think it would have to be a pretty bad cable to diffuse or alter the light signal enough to be unreadable at the other end.

              No?




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