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Originally Posted by philmacavity
On a similar vein, I shelled out £15 for an optical TOSlink cable from Maplins & to be honest, I don't think it's that much better than my old cambridge Atlantic audio leads I used before!
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I have some Cambridge Audio Atlantic and some Pacific cables, I thought they were a very good compromise between cost and performance for analogue signals. For me the advantage of the Optical cables on a digital platform is the smaller form factor, they are easier to route and hide and less prone to interference and pick-up.
On the subject of HDMI and digital signal transfer in general, I always subscribed to the concept of a poor quality cable introducing errors so was prepared to upgrade the standard Virgin cable. The fact is it has been very reliable, I simply have not seen any need to upgrade.