Toss the link?

Thanks for that. I had been considering moving back to TOSLINK as I'd been having trouble with eARC (and HDCP compliance) and was wondering whether taking the audio out of the chain may help.
I still might try it for the cost of a cable, as DTS 5.1 is all I'd need, but I hadn't really considered that it wasn't up to the job any more.
 
I think it depends.

In that for simple stereo setups, i.e. a MiSTer, or something like that and it's still fine. And headphone DAC/AMPs tend to support Optical heavily. For a lounge set-up with 5.1 etc. optical has probably long been on the demise. Thinks like consoles moving away from it and ARC/eARC becoming the norm. Also latency with optical out from TV's can be an issue.
 
I pretty much gave up on optical/toslink in 2008 when I bought my first and only standalone blu-ray player, I bought my first HDMI AV receiver shortly afterwards. I needed both for the lossless sound formats. I did keep the old leads (I had 2 for some reason) though as you never know when you might need them. I reused the first one for a soundbar that dad had bought, Second one has gone back into use from my PC into my AV receiver for stereo music duties, when I temporarily did not have a pair of PC desktop speakers.
 
Another garbage article on the internet.
"Any time you convert a signal, you incur a cost. For TOSLINK, that cost was in the conversion from electrical to optical as the carrier. That conversion increases both noise and distortion in the system, making the supposedly bit-perfect signal somewhat less than. "

No, utterly wrong. It's digital, there is no noise added in audio over Toslink. The data is either correct or it's not.
 
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