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Good afternoon

Has anybody here had any issues regarding the optical inputs on G series equipment?

I have a G68J and have found that a chord company optical that worked fine with a 568.2mm no longer works with a G68J. I get nothing from that input. The weird thing is that a cheap and cheerful 'sainsburys' special works! This leads me to believe that the fitting of the optical plug is not very good even though I get a clear solid red light from the end I'm putting in tithe G68J.

Any experience or help would be greatly appreciated

Kind regards
David

Hi David,

I use a Sandstrom cable into G68D from PC World, think it is 4 or metres.

No issues

Regards I

I use a cheap n cheerful Amazon branded lead that works fine.

It could be that the lead was kinked at some point?

T

Thanks for the info chaps.

Just seemed weird that literally unplugging from the 568.2 then straight into the G68 and it stopped!

I do have somewhere in a box of audio assortments (yes that will come in handy box) a 90 degree optical adaptor so I will see if that solves it. Otherwise looks like I'll be changing the cable from my screen to processor.

Kind regards
David

Hi,

It might be that the LED optical output from the source (TV) is a bit weak and isn't quite up to the job for the G68. Similarly, it may be that the 'tolerances' on the 568 are a bit wider and it was OK with the 'weaker' input.

You may find that the same cable is OK with another source.

Brian

Hi David

Unlikely, but worth checking... I've had a situation where an optical cable looked and felt as though it was firmly engaged in the socket, but wasn't clicked home properly, so didn't work. Nonetheless, if you looked at the other end of the cable, you would indeed see the red light from the receiver just as you do.

Cheers

George

Optical has always worked for me (on a G68AXV), but of course you do need to program that in. I assume you used the config program to set it up or had optical working prior?

Evening gents!

Brian I hadn't thought about strength of signal. I will try the suspect lead with another source and see if that makes a difference 👍🏻

George that is something that crossed my mind but it 'clicked' as it went home into the socket. Although not as tight as the other one I guess. I'll show it some gentle muscle and see if I was a little to polite when plugging in 👍🏻

Config program is all setup and stored on the unit, that was my original 'doh' I've forgotten to select optical from tv after I saved the program. I have even pulled everything back onto the laptop to double check.

Thanks for the info and ideas!

Kind regards
David

Afternoon all.

I thought i would just update this post. I finally managed to have a play with the suspect optical connection and after a few tests and swapping of cables i can conclusively say that it is my 5m chord optichord cable that has failed.

Next step, a call to chord who are not far up the road from me for further options!

Somewhere in the back of my mind i thought they had a lifetime guarantee on cables but i could be wrong??

Thanks for all the help and advice.

Kind regards
David

Hi David,

I thought that was the case too. I've had a look on the Chord website and couldn't find much. However, looking on a webshop, I found that the warranty should be 10 years: Chord Optichord.

Thanks,
Peter

Hi Peter

Thank you for that!

kind regards
David