20-May-2019, 10:36
(20-May-2019, 09:24)baconbrain Wrote:(19-May-2019, 10:00)Antoine Wrote: When I myself first bought optical cables I didn’t do much ‘research’ and just bought plain OM4 type cables, brand unknown. Only later I saw that there’s all types of specialty cables as well including types that can bend. Have a look here for example: https://www.fs.com/c/fiber-optic-cables-209
You can see there’s ‘bend insensitive’ cables (BIF) there for example or ruggedized ones.
So short answer: it depends on the cable. All (should) have the maximum bend radius’s specified.
Really appreciate this. Are you currently running Multi- or Singlemode?
No problem!
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I bought the parts for the optical setup before many people started experimenting with different types of cables, SFP’s, single/multi mode etc. It now seems to matter also or at least some people report differences in the resulting SQ of their systems. So while I am at standard 550nm multi mode, single mode for long distances like 20/40/80kms seems better. Corning cables seems to get good reviews.
I’ve only found snippets of information re this subject on audiophilestyle and whatsbestforum. I do believe @octaviars has researched and/or experimented here a bit. I myself have put it on the ‘virtual to do list’ for perhaps after the etherREGEN becomes available (which also has an optical input).
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