Audioquest Cinnamon Optilink Full Size 3M Toslink Cable - Open Box

3M Cinnamon Optical - OPEN BOX  Price Includes shipping Cinnamon Full Size Toslink * Lower-Dispersion Higher-Purity Fiber* Low-Jitter (Digital Timing Errors)* Precision Polished Fiber* Full size to full size plugWhen the question is "how can a fiber-optic cable change the sound?" ... the answer is easier to explain than for almost any other type of cable. If the light source were a coherent laser, firing into a vacuum, all the light would stay straight, arriving at its destination at the same time. Even if the LED light source in a Toslink system were coherent, the light entering a fiber-optic cable is scattered and dispersed by imperfections and impurities in the fiber. This can be measured as a loss of amplitude ... but amplitude is not the problem, a 50% true loss would have no effect on sound quality.The problem is that the dispersed light does get through the cable, but only after it has taken a longer path, like a pool ball bouncing off the side-rails, causing it to arrive later.