At first I was concerned about the word "thin" in the description. I thought the cable might be particularly fragile. However, this has not been the case.After clumsily running the cable from point A to point B and subsequently tugging on it accidentally when moving things around it still works just fine. Of course, I would never advise putting unnecessary stress on a TOSLINK cable, but I'm simply saying that if it has survived my ownership, it will ..