Redkiwi: if you like sound of better optical interconnects you may be shocked when hear sound with NO digital optical (or other) interconnect at all. Stan Warren, invented couple years ago, "OpticDirect Interface" which he applied with Toslink. There is no loss of signal in such arrangment at all !!!. Sound quality obviously depends in great degree on "modem" and Toslink is not the best. Better optical modems such as as ATT ST type will sound even better.
Is the "ST" AT T optical digital connection dead?
Is the "ST" AT&T optical digital connection dead? The ST connection has always sounded the best to my ears, and way, way better than the toslink connection. Yet it seems to be disappearing from use. Why? Is it dead as a digital connection standard, and what happened to it. If it provided the best sound, and was probably the besy digital data stream link why is it disappearing from use? Is it too expensive? It is very unlikely too expensive for use on high-end equipment.
What happened?
What happened?