AudioQuest Carbon Toslink Fiber Optic Digital Cable PVC- 8.0 Meter

Upgrade Your Optical Connection to Carbon OptiLink

Upgrade your Toslink optical connection to OptiLink. Perfect for use with soundbars, subwoofers, and various A/V components, AudioQuest Carbon OptiLink optical digital cable features 19 narrow-aperture, highest-purity synthetic fibers to minimize timing errors, improve bandwidth, and optimize performance.

Precision polished fiber ends to greatly reduce digital timing errors known as jitter for superior performance in your hi-fi and home theater applications.

19 Narrow-Aperture Synthetic Fiber Conductors

The problem with optical fiber transmission is that dispersed light does get through the Toslink cable, but only after it has taken a longer path, like a pool ball bouncing off the side-rails, causing it to arrive later.

This delayed part of the signal prevents the computer charged with decoding the information from being decoded properly, or even at all. This reduced bandwidth is a measurable signature of light being dispersed by a fiber. The punch line: The less dispersion in the fiber, the less distortion in the final analog audio signal presented to our ears.

Low-Jitter Design

Unlike most optical cables, which use a single large fiber to transmit the audio signal and are highly vulnerable to distortion caused by their indirect light dispersion, AudioQuest’s Carbon Optical cable features 19 narrow-aperture fibers of the highest-purity synthetic, creating a cleaner, more direct signal path with significantly reduced dispersion and lower distortion.

Precision-Polished Fiber Ends

AudioQuest Carbon Optical cable uses Precision-Polished Fiber Ends. This non-metallic connection provides critical galvanic isolation to eliminate the transmission and pickup of induced radio-frequency noise. Music is presented with a satisfying combination of realistic detail and natural warmth.

The Next Evolution of Optical Cable Performance

With the Indulgence Series, AudioQuest illustrates an evolution of cable performance. Why the word 'indulgence'? When we set aside the time for audio/video entertainment in the home we are, after all, allowing ourselves a bit of well-earned personal indulgence. We allow ourselves time for emotional transportation via video and sound.

There are huge differences in the sound of optical cables. As part of AudioQuest's re-examination of optical cable design, specific attention was paid to maximizing the sonic performance of digital optical cables.

AudioQuest's Indulgence OptiLink series pushes optical sonic performance to new levels. While test equipment is excellent at tracking control errors or ensuring data pass through, no computer can compete with the human ear when it comes to perceiving the subtle but crucial audio errors and distortion that can reduce the enjoyment of your music and video files via optical digital interconnects.

Product Features

19 Narrow-Aperture Synthetic Fibers
Low-Jitter (Digital Timing Errors)
Precision Polished Fiber Ends
3 meter and Above Uses In-Wall Rated PVC

Product Specs

3.0 Meter and Above Uses In-Wall Rated PVC

Recommended Component – Stereophile

"It's hard to get Stereophile writers to agree on anything, but Robert Harley, Johnathan Scull, Kalman Rubinson, Lonnie Brownell, Robert Reina, and Wes Philips all use this as their reference. 'Sometime mercilessly revealing,' Kalman Rubinson maintains, 'but never harsh.' 'Fast, open, and detailed,' raved Johnathan Scull. 'Focused and nuanced,' concurs Wes Philips. 'Smooth yet highly detailed, spacious soundstage, and lack of hardness and edge,' says Robert Harley."

- Stereophile, Vol. 19, No. 10

"The D60 offered up great momentum, a seamless image across the frequency band, bulging bass lines, 3-D imaging, and an ability to dig out detail within detail. It was very good at portraying the balance that exists between a note’s main sound and the fine sonic gradations of that note’s structure. The overall sound was smooth, transparent, with plenty of transient detail. Even on my CD of John Coltrane’s Plays the Blues—a stereo remix of a mono recording – every instrument was clearly separated and fleshed out in its own space."

- Robert Schryer, pmamagazine.org, May 7, 2022

"A great digital (SPDIF) cable with a pure silver conductor and teflon insultation. A very clean and dynamic sounding cable. I had to try it out to test the digital outputs of my new Auralic G2.2. This is still a current model. It's a very neutral cable which gives a good sense of "air" and atmospherics to music."

- stereonet.com, February 11, 2024

"Quite simply, this is the best digital interconnect I have ever used in my system. It is also one of the most expensive. But it so clearly outclassed almost all other digital cables I've tried, that its somewhat higher price can be easily justified."

"The soundstage seemed much larger, the highs cleaner, and the imaging more focused. There was not an aspect to the performance that was not improved by this cable. But most of all, there was an amazing increase in low-level detail, air, and sense of space. As well, there was a more relaxed aspect to the presentation that makes living without this cable wholly unacceptable for me. This is my personal reference for the best."

- Doug Schneider, soundstagenetwork.com

"For bang for buck in my setup, the Kimber seems to be the solution or at least puts an end to searching."

- Theo, forum.audiogon.com, April 24, 2019

"The bass was robust and full with a very smooth, controlled sound. Deep bass was conveyed with authority and control. Midrange was natural and musical…"

- DM, audioasylum.com

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