StarTech.com 20 Feet PREMIUM TOSLINK OPTICAL TOSLINK20

This is the longest Toslink optical cable I've found readily available, and for that, it is amazingly, almost unbelievably economical. It has a very thick, heavy jacket, which should help to protect the optical fiber within. It also has hefty end connectors, and the gold-tone accents on them serve absolutely no useful purpose on an optical cable, but they look do nice and give it an extra air of quality. I've had this cable for about two years. One end of it hangs off an extra input in back of my home theater receiver, and the other end lives under my couch, where it gets shoved around in the dust and occasionally trodden on, and it performs flawlessly without complaint. This allows me to just sit down with my MacBook Pro laptop anytime, pop in the cable, and instantly listen to anything in my music library (or internet radio etc.) in full digital quality. Isn't technology grand! This would also be ideal for hooking up the digital sound output of your HDTV back to your stereo or home theater, or any similar application where you need a longer than usual cable. By the way, for use with the MacBook Pro or other laptop with a similar analog/digital dual-purpose port, you'll want a mini optical adaptor such as this one from RiteAV , or perhaps this one if you prefer a right-angle connector. Highly recommended. "Buy without hesitation."

I had no idea that this type of thing existed until one day I was sick of watching all of my movies in 2.0 sound when my parents had a surround sound system but no real way to get surround sound out of it besides our cable box. Then I did some Googling and it turns out my friends laptop has an optical out port inside of his headphone jack. This blew my mind. My friend didn't have surround sound at his house, and I didn't have a laptop that could perform such witchery, so we both split the measly $5 for this cable. Boy was it worth it. We were able to plug this into his laptop's 3.5mm jack because it was a toslink port and plug it into my parent's surround sound receiver's optical in port, and we got surround sound. This is an optical cord and I'm pretty sure they're all more or less the same, and this one works so I'm sure it's giving us the best quality we can get. There is no audio artifacts or anything of that nature. This transfer a beautiful 5.1 sound and I love it. There really isn't any more to ask for. If you have a use for a cable of this nature, then get this one. It works perfectly.

I recently bought a Dell computer which was advertised as having a S/PDIF digital sound output. I wanted a digital audio out from my computer for advanced sound applications I had planned with the system. When I received the product there was no digital cable output, and I was furious. I read the manual for the computer and it said a mini stereo type plug was a digital out "with proper adapter". I called Dell support since I had just received the computer and could not understand how to take the signal from a mini plug to a digital optical type cable. They, as usual were not able to help me either with an explanation or with availability of an "adapter" to take the signal from mini digital to "Toslink". After chatting online with them for about 15 minutes, I became frustrated and told the so-called "Technical" person to forget it, I would figure it out myself. Immediately I went to Amazon, and found this product quickly which fitted my needs perfectly. Ordered it with my Amazon Prime subscription, and it arrived quickly, packaged perfectly, and of what appears to be high-quality. The adapter cable works perfectly for my application, and I would not hesitate to buy another product from the manufacturer/vendor StarTech.com. Of course I would always buy directly through Amazon because of their money back guarantee and their offering of absolutely incredible prices on audio and video cabling, adapters, and accessories.

Why did you pick this product vs others?: Price was good.

Simple plug and play cable to go from my TV to a speaker bar. It works, not much else to say.

I bought this optical cable after I mounted the tv on the wall in my guest room. It was connected to my old school Bose Solo TV Sound System. It has an optical audio connection only. Anyway, the 6’ one was too short and I bought this based on price and length. It easily reached from the tv, into the low voltage in wall conduit and then into the sound bar. This particular sound bar is not wall mountable, it is old but still has great sound. No issues with the connections, as some have complained about. They both clicked into their respective ports and the audio sound is the same as with using the original 6’ cable. I would recommend this product. It is very thin, but this is not a cable that is supposed to be unplugged many times. For under 6.00 it was a good deal.

Right off the bat, any insulation gimics you see on other products are just that. Fiber isn't effected by anything other than light and a thin nontransparent shielding is good enough. The only issue is it's still break with less force and degrade faster over time. Both of those factors don't matter cause I'm not using the cable as a jump rope nor is my environment going to cause degradation of the insulation to break down within the next couple of decades. These are a no brainer imo as they're cheap and work just like any fiber cable. Also easier to train these with the thinner cable. There's probably a possiblity of being so cheap that it doesn't work but I bought a couple of these and all of them work fine

I ordered several toslink cables and this is the only cable which could send 24bit 192khz signals without any problem

Excelente calidad. La medida exacta que necesitaba. Funcionó inmediatamente. Lo recomiendo.

le cable ne marche pas franchement cet de l'argent balancer dans la poubelle ne l'acheter pas faut mieux mettre plus chaire

Needed a thin but well made optical audio cable for a wall-mounted TV. This StarTech cable is thin and flexible, while still sounding great through the soundbar. Plugs are well made and fit snugly.

Pro: Works as expected with my audio interfaces. 8 or 4 smux adat channels. Tight solid plug connections. Have had no issues. Affordable. Con: It is incredibly thin and rather stiff and if put besides other audio cables on the floor it’s easy to trip over. Due to it’s material it makes small “cable loops”. Been close to rip it out of the interfaces. Gaffer it to the floor to avoid breaking it.