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25-01-2008, 10:02 PM
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| Optical Cable sugestions hiya. im currently looking for an optical cable to connect my Logitech Z5500 5.1 Surround Speaker System to my Sony DVP-NS78 1080p dvd player. 1. which make would you recommend? (ive heard of Ixos, Profigold and QED but are they any good?) does it have to be gold-plated, triple-coating,etc.? 2. is optical "better" than a coxial cable? Last edited by gino_76ph; 25-01-2008 at 10:07 PM.. Reason: mistake |
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25-01-2008, 10:09 PM
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| Re: Optical Cable sugestions Originally Posted by gino_76ph No. No. No.
Gold plated optical links are marketed at fools. Its sending LIGHT down that fibre, not an electrical signal.
However, optical is usually thinner / smaller than coax which can make it easier to route.  |
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25-01-2008, 11:24 PM
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 | Re: Optical Cable sugestions Just go for a half decent manufacturer, I paid about a tenner for a 3m optical lead, and it has been fine for the last 3 or so years. I think it was made by Hama.  ʎɐqǝ uo pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ɐ ʎnq ı ǝɯıʇ ʇsɐן ǝɥʇ sı sıɥʇ. |
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26-01-2008, 12:10 AM
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| Re: Optical Cable sugestions yeah i bought a belkin blue series optical cable to connect mt z5500 and ps3, cost about a £10 and is perfect, bought a coax belkin cable to connect the z5500 to my freeview for £10 aswell, both good quality cables |
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26-01-2008, 08:09 AM
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| Re: Optical Cable sugestions Originally Posted by grizzla so, wouyld you rather connect the Z5500 "directly" to any machine like in my (and your) case a freeview box and a PS3 or a DVD player rather than to the TV? is it much practical that way you think?
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29-01-2008, 09:52 AM
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| Re: Optical Cable sugestions Optical in my experience has been more fragile than coax. As said above, don't believe that expensive cables are better. As the cables are digital, they just send a series of 1s and 0s down the cable. How they expect you to believe that paying £100 for a cable can send 1s and 0s better than a £10 cable I don't know. It's the same for my new HDMI cables that comet were trying to flog me for £50 and up, trying to tell me that cheaper cables can't display 1080p. Never spend more than £10 on a cable(unless it's for a longer cable). I do know everything, just not all at once. It's a virtual memory problem. |
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29-01-2008, 10:02 AM
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| Re: Optical Cable sugestions Optical and coax audo cables can have differences, but they are minute, and it down to the fact they are just transfering a stream of data, there isn't a lot of error checking in there. Ther is also no shared clock between the connected devices so you can get sync problems and jitter (where one clock isn't at exactly the right rate I believe). This only really comes into play on high end equipment, you know, £5K CD Players, £5K amps and £10k speakers etc. DVI/HDMI has a shared clock so isn't effected in this way. |
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29-01-2008, 01:42 PM
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| Re: Optical Cable sugestions Originally Posted by Funkstar No, this is another lie.
Two asyncronous clock signals, traveling at a measly few Khz, swinging out of line enough (think nyquest rule here). its not going to happen. Its more bollocks of the HiFi LowEE brigade. throw new ArgumentException (String, String, Exception) |
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30-01-2008, 09:33 AM
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| Re: Optical Cable sugestions play.com toslink cables about 3 metres for a tenner and a brandname 'mac' or something good price, i have one and there brill tbh!    |
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30-01-2008, 01:12 PM
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| Re: Optical Cable sugestions Originally Posted by TheAnimus Nyquist
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