Looking for a Giant Killer Digital cable

blindjim,

I skimmed though this thread and didn't see any mention of a optical cable. I know there are many people out there that don't like optical, BUT I found one I use in my system (connects my streamer to my Ayre Codex dac) that I found that sounded incredibly good. It's the Wireworld Super Nova 7 glass optical. It retails for $200. I got mine new for $150 for a 1 meter length. Not sure how it compares with the better coax cables out there, but this one impressed the heck out of me. IMO. Worth a try???

Blindjim,

The glass optical cable has the standard ends of a inexpensive toslink, but are highly polished on the Wireworld. Standard cheap toslink ($15 to $30 variety) usually comes with one thick plastic line to transmit the signal. OTOH, a high quality glass optical is made up of hundreds of small glass threads to carry signal. The Wireworld has approx. 330 of these minute glass cables bundled into one. This makes for a much more expensive interconnect, but is vastly superior to a standard cheap toslink. I have done extensive comparisons with both. YMMV.