Optical Digital Audio Cable needed? Who should I ask next?
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I'm not familiar with your specific components but if your tv has an HDMI output connected to the receivers HDMI input you should have HD video and digital audio going from the tv to the receiver through the HDMI cable.
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The best quality sound, and the easiest way, is to get a Digital Optical Cable. One plug in, one plug out to TV. I bought one from Amazon Basics, and it has worked great for the last 7 months. Not to expensive, either.
526140
Yes, that is correct. Coaxial and optical cables cannot carry HD audio signals; they simply cannot support the required bandwidth.
1205156
How are you hooking up the rest of the channels? Via 5.1 in the motherboard? TOSLINK (digital/optical)? Explain your setup in detail and I can probably help you out.
1281840
This has been my problem too (digital optical/ TOSLINK/ SPDIF compatibility). I think I might go for gaming headsets such as Turtlebeach (PX5 etc) and use it for both games and movies. Plus, they have a digital optical OUT that you can hook up with your home theater/ sound bar system.
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That would work for sure. If you can use a Toslink cable that would be better (AmazonBasics Digital Optical Audio Toslink Cable). Look on your receiver/tv for a square connection, it usually has a blank piece of plastic in it to keep it clean. This would provide and optical audio connection.
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No, you will need a product that converts coaxial output to optical input, C2G / Cables to Go 40018 Coaxial to Optical Digital Audio Converter (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002J2MV4/ref=cm_cd_asin_lnk)
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Answer number 2 is exactly what I would do. Adapter from RCA analog to Digital optical. I have a Sony 200 disc cd player but lucky for me it has an optical out jack.
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You probably have discovered by now that this unit does not have optical (toslink) audio out, only digital coax (a single RCA jack that may have a yellow colored collar). Hope this helps! - Dr.Maxx
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Hello Erwin, I'm not sure but as far as I know this cable (RCA) is analog and you are not going to be able to convert the signal from analog to digital signal (optical cable) without a converter. Hopefully this will help you. Later man.
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Hi James, Great question and great answers from these folks. Optical would be the likely way as the guys below mention. If you do not have optical in the TV (unlikely) then digital coax would work or you can go directly from the DVD/cable/satellite box with these audio cable to the soundbar. Contact AV-Express for further assistance.
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I would recommend using the optical cable as it is the only way to transmit and decode digital audio. You will get a better sound stage and certainly a better movie experience with it. You may not notice much of a difference with TV programs tho.
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optical audio out in TV to sound bar optical audio in.. need to buy separately
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Yes! This will do it, but you will also need an adapter to convert the optical audio.
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Probably not. 3.5mm audio is almost almost always analogue. Optical is always digital. You'll need some sort of D -> A (digital to analogue) in the middle. So probably a TOSLINK cable to get to a D->A, a D->A, and an analogue cable to go to the speakers. Without seeing everything, I think these three items are what you need.AmazonBasics Digital Optical Audio Toslink Cable - 6 Feet (1.8 Meters) (Optical out of TV into converter)Panlong Digital to Analog Audio Converter Digital Optical Toslink/SPDIF or Coaxial Inputs to L/R RCA and 3.5mm Jack Outputs (Converts digital to analogue)Mediabridge 3.5mm Male To Male Stereo Audio Cable (4 Feet) - Step Down Design - (Part# MPC-35-4 ) (Carries analogue to the speakers) Probably not. 3.5mm audio is almost almost always analogue. Optical is always digital. You'll need some sort of D -> A (digital to analogue) in the middle. So probably a TOSLINK cable to get to a D->A, a D->A, and an analogue cable to go to the speakers. Without seeing everything, I think these three items are what you need.AmazonBasics Digital Optical Audio Toslink Cable - 6 Feet (1.8 Meters) (Optical out of TV into converter)Panlong Digital to Analog... » Read More Probably not. 3.5mm audio is almost almost always analogue. Optical is always digital. You'll need some sort of D -> A (digital to analogue) in the middle. So probably a TOSLINK cable to get to a D->A, a D->A, and an analogue cable to go to the speakers. Without seeing everything, I think these three items are what you need.AmazonBasics Digital Optical Audio Toslink Cable - 6 Feet (1.8 Meters) (Optical out of TV into converter)Panlong Digital to Analog Audio Converter Digital Optical Toslink/SPDIF or Coaxial Inputs to L/R RCA and 3.5mm Jack Outputs (Converts digital to analogue)Mediabridge 3.5mm Male To Male Stereo Audio Cable (4 Feet) - Step Down Design - (Part# MPC-35-4 ) (Carries analogue to the speakers) « Show Less
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I used the optical stereo cable and had very good results. That might be a better option.
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Yes, the optical digital input has to be connected to a digital source. TVs nowadays all have these outputs. Some older TVs also have them as well. You can use the analog stereo mini Jack to connect to computers through the headphone / speaker line out.