> I think it's amusing that optic fiber connectors have had so little success in the market though I have a few TOSLINK and the coaxial equivalent in my upstair

> I think it's amusing that optic fiber connectors have had so little success in the market though I have a few TOSLINK and the coaxial equivalent in my upstairs home theater ... Is TOSLINK that unsuccessful? I was already using TOSLINK a very long time ago (in the nineties) and I'm still using TOSLINK today. Enter any audio store and they have TOSLINK cables. It's very old by now though and I take it there's better stuff but TOSLINK still does the job. My "music" path doesn't use TOSLINK: source, eg QOBUZ for (lossless) streaming -> ethernet -> integrated amp (which has a DAC) -> speakers But my "movie" (no home theater anymore atm) path uses TOSLINK: TV -> TOSLINK -> same integrated amp -> speakers For whatever reason that amp is quite new and has all the bells and whistles (ARC and network streaming, for example) yet that amp still comes with not one but two (!) TOSLINK inputs. I'd say that's quite a successful life for a standard that came out in the mid eighties.