Optical Cable Length

[cram]

I'm aware of limitations with longer lengths of HDMI cable. Do the same limitations exist with either digital coax or toslink cables. Thinking of relocating some equipment.

thanks

 

[Anonymous]

Coax, yes. Optical is good for much longer lengths.

 

[Anonymous]

Generally the best results are produced by:

<3m Coax

>3m Optical

Hope this helps

 

[Andrew Everard]

Well, they tend to used optical cables for undersea communications lines, but admittedly they do have the odd repeater built-in, like this

as I reported last Autumn from Fujitsu in Japan.

In a domestic audio environment it's really down to the quality of the sender and the cable and the sensitivity of the receiving device - of course some light is lost/scattered along the way, and over very long runs this may make the error correction work harder or eventually lead to a total loss of signal.

How long are the cables going to be? It's fairly easy to buy 10m cables, so that should be seen as the maximum, but as ever shorter is better.

 

[cram]

cable length should be about 10m.

Thanks for the replies.

 

[Anonymous]

You'll be fine then, I used to run an 8m Supra cable EDITED BY MODS for house rules.

 

[clearer_audio]

Indeed 10m will be no problem for a quality optical cable.

All the best,
Darren