Hi, Guest
05-06-2006, 08:50 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-06-2006, 08:53 PM by Drivesthebeast.)
A standard RCA cable cannot carry the same bandwidth of signal as a deducated subwoofer cable. The subwoofer cable not only has more wire count per foot, and has less signal loss, it also allows the LFE octaves from the output of your receiver to be sent to the amp in your sub better than the standard type can. I purchased a 20ft Monsterbass Cable from EHR for around $120 bux, and I'm glad I did...my sub can effectively play anything I throw at it.
In terms of the Digital cable, you must be reffereing to the Digital Coaxial type. This type of cable might have a similar looking jacket and whatnot as a standard cable, but you will notice that it is going to be thicker, and if you look at the tip of it, you will see that there isn't only 1 section to the outer ring....there are usually 7 or more notches, each one of these is for a different channel. This type of cable is also meant to send RAW digital data at high speed from your DVD or other digital media sources, without having to convert it from digital to analogue, and back from analogue to digital, which would degrade the signal. Simply creates a straight pathway between components. Also, just as a personal observation, my receiver never went into actual surround modes, or had the speaker map lit up on the front display until I installed a digital coax, and assigned it to the source it was being fed by. That's because I was sending my receiver an a digital signal that had been converted to analogue by my DVD player, and was staying analogue going into the the receiver. Also, my receiver's internal analogue circuits would often display a peak meter warning, because the output level of my DVD player was too high, and I had to set the Attenuator on the receiver to ON. After switching to the digital, all 7 channels were working, the map was displayed for each surround mode, and there is no issues with overtaxing the preamp circuits, because the analogue ones were now being bypassed, and I turned the ATT off.
This explanation is a little overkill, but hopefully you get the idea.
One more thing...
Yeah, spending over $100 per cable is expensive at first, or at least seem that way, but ummm...are you planning to replace them more than once over 10 years or more? The cables should last as long as the kit they connect. Look at it that way...
In terms of the Digital cable, you must be reffereing to the Digital Coaxial type. This type of cable might have a similar looking jacket and whatnot as a standard cable, but you will notice that it is going to be thicker, and if you look at the tip of it, you will see that there isn't only 1 section to the outer ring....there are usually 7 or more notches, each one of these is for a different channel. This type of cable is also meant to send RAW digital data at high speed from your DVD or other digital media sources, without having to convert it from digital to analogue, and back from analogue to digital, which would degrade the signal. Simply creates a straight pathway between components. Also, just as a personal observation, my receiver never went into actual surround modes, or had the speaker map lit up on the front display until I installed a digital coax, and assigned it to the source it was being fed by. That's because I was sending my receiver an a digital signal that had been converted to analogue by my DVD player, and was staying analogue going into the the receiver. Also, my receiver's internal analogue circuits would often display a peak meter warning, because the output level of my DVD player was too high, and I had to set the Attenuator on the receiver to ON. After switching to the digital, all 7 channels were working, the map was displayed for each surround mode, and there is no issues with overtaxing the preamp circuits, because the analogue ones were now being bypassed, and I turned the ATT off.
This explanation is a little overkill, but hopefully you get the idea.
One more thing...
Yeah, spending over $100 per cable is expensive at first, or at least seem that way, but ummm...are you planning to replace them more than once over 10 years or more? The cables should last as long as the kit they connect. Look at it that way...
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