Not having an opinion on the matter, I just wanted to point out that there is also a market out there for people pretending to hear the difference between optic

Not having an opinion on the matter, I just wanted to point out that there is also a market out there for people pretending to hear the difference between optical audio cables and gold-plated optical audio cables… I wouldn't be surprised if companies were willing to over-engineer something, anything just to sell at a higher price :)