Steve Y
Supporting Actor
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- May 1, 2000
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Pardon if this has been covered somewhere; the "search" function is overloaded at the moment.
A friend of mine (who lives quite a distance from me) is hooking up his PlayStation2 (via its optical out - it has no coax out) to his new Sony DD/DTS Receiver. (sorry, don't have the model #)
He tells me that his lightspeed 200 (monster cable) fits snugly into his PS2, but that his Receiver optical input -- it's one of the newer 100W x 5 models, I believe -- will not receive the cable properly. He says it's too big for the cable. ("The cable's end is like a small pin, and won't fit comfortably inside")
He was able to get the signal through (and get 5.1 sound), but he tells me the cable connection is "sketchy".
Is there a "trick" to getting optical cables snugly in a receiver? Is the lightspeed 200 a different "size" than the 100? He seemed to think so, from his memory of the various cables available at the store. But that doesn't seem right to me, as I would imagine these optical interconnects should fit into any receiver with a corresponding optical input. Please help, if you can! I've done some web searching but no dice.
Thanks in advance,
~Steve
A friend of mine (who lives quite a distance from me) is hooking up his PlayStation2 (via its optical out - it has no coax out) to his new Sony DD/DTS Receiver. (sorry, don't have the model #)
He tells me that his lightspeed 200 (monster cable) fits snugly into his PS2, but that his Receiver optical input -- it's one of the newer 100W x 5 models, I believe -- will not receive the cable properly. He says it's too big for the cable. ("The cable's end is like a small pin, and won't fit comfortably inside")
He was able to get the signal through (and get 5.1 sound), but he tells me the cable connection is "sketchy".
Is there a "trick" to getting optical cables snugly in a receiver? Is the lightspeed 200 a different "size" than the 100? He seemed to think so, from his memory of the various cables available at the store. But that doesn't seem right to me, as I would imagine these optical interconnects should fit into any receiver with a corresponding optical input. Please help, if you can! I've done some web searching but no dice.
Thanks in advance,
~Steve