Posted September 12, 200520 yr Anyone have any inside info or guesses as to when car audio manufacturers will be using Toslink cables for connections. Stepping up from a decent RCA cable to a fiberoptic cable made a noticible differnce in my HT set up.
September 12, 200520 yr Prob not for a whileFibberoptic cable isnt exactly cheap, imagine a 20ft piece....how much money would you have to spend
September 12, 200520 yr They already are...in HUs and processors...I'm using optical out from my CarPC to the H700...works great!Optical cables are cheap...don't know where you got your info from. http://www.core-sound.com/toslink-cables.html
September 12, 200520 yr They already are...in HUs and processors...I'm using optical out from my CarPC to the H700...works great!Optical cables are cheap...don't know where you got your info from. http://www.core-sound.com/toslink-cables.html<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Got more info on the car PC. Comments on the ups and downs. How about do's and don'ts. I am very interested in this. Thanks.
September 12, 200520 yr Generic ones, ya.Im thinking some propreitary(sp) one....<{POST_SNAPBACK}>???So you want a fiberoptic cable to say "Alpine" on it simply because it has the name on it? I don't think I'm following you...
September 12, 200520 yr Got more info on the car PC. Comments on the ups and downs. How about do's and don'ts. I am very interested in this. Thanks.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>VIA EPIA M10000 mobo (1ghz imbedded proc., onboard graphics & sound)512mb ramDVD/CDRW slot load driveChaintech AV-710 soundcard w/optical out120gb HDD8" Lilliput touchscreenM1-atx power supplyThey're quite easy to implement into the car...the hardest part I've run into is molding the screen into the dash...apart from that all you have to do is run the wiring, mount the pc case/monitor and voila, done.
September 12, 200520 yr As Wedge said; Toslink is already in use in the car audio market, and has been for a while.
September 13, 200520 yr Generic ones, ya.Im thinking some propreitary(sp) one....<{POST_SNAPBACK}>???So you want a fiberoptic cable to say "Alpine" on it simply because it has the name on it? I don't think I'm following you...<{POST_SNAPBACK}>No..The connections would be propreitary, kinda like IPBUS, AiNET kinda things
September 13, 200520 yr The connections would be propreitary, kinda like IPBUS, AiNET kinda things<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Well, of course it would be expensive...there'd only be one source to get the cable from...the manufacturer.But that's not what is being discussed here...we're talking about toslink/optical...it's not an exclusive connection, and therefore, relatively cheap...as I have shown with the link provided.
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