AudioQuest Carbon Optical Cables

Toslink optical cable with 19 narrow-aperture synthetic fibers

Carbon Optical is a digital fiber-optic cable for Toslink links. In place of the single large-diameter fiber found in the majority of optical cables, it uses a bundle of 19 thin fibers made from a high-purity synthetic material.

Fibers and dispersion

One wide fiber lets light bounce around, so part of it turns up late and degrades decoding of the signal. The 19 narrow-aperture fibers give light a more direct route, with markedly lower dispersion and distortion. Having no metal parts, the link also provides galvanic isolation between components and neither passes on nor picks up radio-frequency noise.

Key features

• 19 synthetic fibers with narrow aperture and high purity
• Precision-polished fiber ends
• Low jitter and galvanic isolation
• Lengths: 0.75 m, 1.5 m, 3 m, 5 m, 8 m, 12 m and 16 m