Digital Coax - RCA cables? (1 Viewer)

[Gary W. Graley]

I've been reading the forum with great interest of late as I recently picked up the Sony 5ES receiver and can now hookup optical or digital inputs from my dvd player.

Now I read that some prefer the robustness of the Coax cable but my question is, the regular RCA type connector cables, are those useable in this situation? I get confused, as is pretty easy! when I hear them called by different terms.

Don't want to muck about with the cables without checking with you knowledgeable folks.

This isn't a debate on which is better, fiber optic or coax but just finding out whether SPECIAL cables are required to go the coax route. Right now I have a fiber optic, not a special make, but seems to do the job for now on my Sony 560 dvd player.

Thanks,

G2

 

[John Sully]

You can use composite video cables, but steer clear of the regular audio interconnects. Digital is meant for 75 ohm termination and audio cables do not provide that.

 

[Philip Hamm]

I use regular audio cables for digital coax on one of my systems and they work fine. They are more prone to interference though, I have experienced dropout in certain situations using regular audio cables and when I switched to 75ohm video coax everything was fine. So now in one system I use cheapo 75 ohm coax cables that I got at a hardware store for $7.50 each. They kick ass. On the other system I use megacheap audio cables and don't have a problem.

 

[Lee Weiss]

Phil,

So does this mean you can use RG6 with RCA adapters, like I did for my subwoofer? I use the optical cable from my Playstation2 because my Toshiba DVD only has digital coax out.

I guess I will have to try it when I get home. I learn something new every day here.

 

[Gary W. Graley]

Well hooked up both optical and coax and with my remote I can switch between the two and after listening to several sources I don't hear any differences, odd...but I might just stay with the wire verse optical, as the optical can become fractured more easily....

Thanks guys!

G2