Glass v.s. Plastic Toslink

Is there a real difference in the sound quality between a plastic and a glass Toslink cable used on your Apple computer running into a DAC?

stickman45108-15-2011 3:07am

sonic_genius Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 528 posts 11-26-2012 at 11:40pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Glass in my tests. Toslink is a joke IMO, too bad AT&T ST interfaces are gone.
kclone Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 682 posts 12-09-2012 at 01:17pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete I want to invest in higher quality cables for my connection. So given the choice, my music server has both toslink and coaxial outs to connect to my DAC, which is better, the coaxial or the toslink? Or does it just depend?
extravaganza Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 373 posts 12-11-2012 at 10:29am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete difficult to say,because diffrent (brands)media server has influence to the sound too.I tried 2 diffrent cd players with the same toslink glass cable and the sound is a bit diffrent ,one is bassier than the other.What makes the diffrence? I don't know.Anyway good toslink cable will let hear what recording is like.With good recordings you will enjoy the sound,with bad you curse cable. With coax you can choose what kind of flavour you want paying megabucks or several $