>> all toslink cables sound IDENTICAL.
>> Van Den Hul is 4+x more $ than the below for a pearl white jacket and marketing hype

Not sure if I could definitively agree or disagree. You obviously know better than me. I just want a reasonable degree of quality.

There are at least 2 schools of thoughts on cabling, some think that anything other than zip cords are waster of money, some buy $10K cable without a wink and swear by them. I am sort of in between. I never thought power cable or interconnect could make a difference until I bought Naim Hi-Line and Powerline for my Naim equipment.

Van Den Hul claims their design minimizes jitter. And I do know that different optical cables could make huge differences in data rate.

Either way I do not think a $100 cable for a >$3000 machine is bonkers is it?

http://www.vandenhul.com/p_B42.aspx
http://www.vandenhul.com/userfiles/docs/OPTOCOUPLER_-_Hifi_Choice_issue_207.pdf