Digital Audio Cables
It is the age of digital audio cables since most home theater equipment comes with digital outputs. Digital audio cables can give you unsurpassed performance minimizing audio loss and this includes your DVD player, your CD player and all other digital playback devices.
Digital audio cables come as digital optical audio cables and digital audio coaxial cables. The optical digital audio cable uses plastic fiber material through with to transmit the digital signal. The coaxial type or RCA uses 75 ohm cables and these have broader bandwidth compared to the optical. Most people opt for coaxial as it costs less than the optical cable.
An optical audio digital cable, by definition is also called a Toslink. Since information between your home theater system components is transferred via light, there is no interference involved. Optical cables are usually used for sending digital audio information in higher end connections.
If you consider digital audio cable vs. RCA cables digital is always better because their performance is superior. One of the main differences between the two is the shielding that digital audio cables come with. This means digital cables cost more than RCA cables that are not shielded. RCA cables do not have the bandwidth that a digital audio cable has. Digital cables have wider bandwidth and there is no signal loss. RCA cables suffer from interference from other electrical devices. If you run long cables, it means you will suffer signal loss. Digital coaxial cables transmit signals electrically, passing the electrical signal pulses via the copper wire in the cable, which is shielded by aluminum foil wrap.
Good quality digital audio video cables are the answer to your home theater system sounded great. Also, better quality cables will last much longer no matter how many times you handle them for reconnecting. You will find connections for digital coaxial cables on all your home theater devices – your DVD, receiver, CD player etc. Any system that uses digital audio will require digital audio cables. Audio alchemy powered digital cables are very widely used.
In general it is advised to use digital audio video cables to connect your home theater components. Nowadays, new HDMI connectors are capable of carrying both digital audio and high definition video signals, including control signals via a single cable, making it very easy to have a direct connection to your HDTV, doing away with multiple cables and wires.
