Price Paid:  $39.00 from eBay

Summary:
Average quality cable. Much superior than the cheap RCA, GE, Monster, RadioShack, AR or whatever crap you found at your local mass market electronic stores. But then again, use digital-coax by all means if you are a serious music listener.

Strengths:
Inexpensive alternative to mass-market optilink junk cables

Weaknesses:
Can't find any strength with this optilink cable.

Similar Products Used:
Wireworld Supernova III+; Audioquest Optilink 4

Price Paid:  $0.00 from The Sound Concept

Summary:
A nice improvement over Monster's entry-level TOSlink cable (if you must use the optical connection), but still inferior to a decent digital coax cable such as Audioquest VSD-1 for even less money.

Strengths:
Beats Monster's poor TOSlink cable.

Weaknesses:
Beaten by digital coax for less money.

Similar Products Used:
Monster TOSlink, Audioquest VSD-1, VSD-2, Kimber/Illuminations DV-75.

Price Paid:  $90.00

Summary:
Currently using them with my CD Player and CD Recorder. Very good cable for the price. Nice jacket and solid connectors. Sound is as good as it gets with my current system. Can't understand how you can improve the sound any further by upgrading to the Optilink-2 or 4.

Weaknesses:
None that can be identified

Similar Products Used:
Audioquest VSD-2 Digital Coax cable Yamaha toslink patch cable