“I use an optical cable between my Directv receiver and my Bryston SP-3 procesoor. I currently own opitical cable by Transparent and Audioquest...I've never thought they quite hit what I was listening for. The Pangea was less money than the other two cables...and in my opinion out performs them. It's just a very natural sounding optical cable...very unlike the others I own. This cable sounds very similar to a digital coax, you would be hard pressed to distinguish between one. Very happy, and very impressed!!”