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Audio drop out on optical output

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    antonpolarbear

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    I'm suffering a lot of momentary audio drop outs across lots of different channels on my HDR-Fox T2. This happens both on live TV and recordings. Signal strength on each mux is 88-90%, and signal quality 100%. The audio on the HDMI output is fine, but the optical output drops out regularly every 10-15 seconds. Very annoying. Any ideas?

    | Wed 4 Jul 2012 21:18:57 #1 |
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    Welcome to the forum.

    How long is the toslink lead you are using and what is it connected to ?

    | Thu 5 Jul 2012 9:36:10 #2 |
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    The toslink is only about 1.2m-1.5m and it's plugged into a Yamaha home theatre receiver RXV2095 i think. I'm using a toslink connection for the audio from my Bluray player as well and that's not causing any issues.

    | Mon 9 Jul 2012 10:19:46 #3 |
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    antonpolarbear - 5 minutes ago  » 
    The toslink is only about 1.2m-1.5m and it's plugged into a Yamaha home theatre receiver RXV2095 i think. I'm using a toslink connection for the audio from my Bluray player as well and that's not causing any issues.

    Try switching the toslink cables. If that's the same suggests a fault on the box. A dry joint or Pcb track crack turning off the driving led maybe. If it's the same after swapping the cables you ought to get the box replaced under warranty.

    | Mon 9 Jul 2012 10:31:50 #4 |
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    Have you tried swapping the two cables and input sockets?

    | Mon 9 Jul 2012 10:32:10 #5 |
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    Thanks for your suggestions. I still can't quite believe this, but I swapped the toslink cable for another, and the fault has gone, so it must have been the cable operating intermittently. How an optical cable in a fixed position can work and then not work is a mystery to me.

    | Thu 26 Jul 2012 12:51:24 #6 |
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    Richer sounds says no need for optical just hdmi.Very confusing machine!
    Johnboy2

    | Sat 11 Aug 2012 21:15:47 #7 |

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