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Bought a subwoofer cable for digital (PC - AV) use?

post #1 of 4
2/8/11 at 1:26pm
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I bought a Monster Cable subwoofer cable for 55€ because I couldn't find any other digital cables except toslink/optical. Anyway, the product desciption tells me how it "improves" low frequencies and all this bassy stuff. I mean ok, but how can someone "improve" 1 and 0? There's no low 0 or low 1, it's either or. It works fine without any problems, and my bass isn't boosted or anything. Just wondering what I bought, isn't coaxial simply coaxial and that's it? http://www.monstercable.com/productdisplay.asp?pin=3796 link, I got the 450 one but I think it's almost the same. Sorry for my text being unorganized but the editor didn't show the cursor once again so I can't use enter and such.


 

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post #2 of 4
2/8/11 at 1:41pm
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Originally Posted by naike View Post

I bought a Monster Cable subwoofer cable for 55€ because I couldn't find any other digital cables except toslink/optical. Anyway, the product desciption tells me how it "improves" low frequencies and all this bassy stuff. I mean ok, but how can someone "improve" 1 and 0? There's no low 0 or low 1, it's either or. It works fine without any problems, and my bass isn't boosted or anything. Just wondering what I bought, isn't coaxial simply coaxial and that's it? http://www.monstercable.com/productdisplay.asp?pin=3796 link, I got the 450 one but I think it's almost the same. Sorry for my text being unorganized but the editor didn't show the cursor once again so I can't use enter and such.


 


You're right, and yes, that cable won't be any better than an inexpensive cable.

 

Honestly I'd save the money and get something like this Monoprice cable (or the EU equivalent, although they do ship abroad):

http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10236&cs_id=1023603&p_id=2682&seq=1&format=2

 

 

 

 

P.S.

 

There's a thread about the cursor issue in the "Feedback and Bug Reports" forum section - you should report it there if you haven't already.  The cursor problem is really frustrating, and I haven't heard anything about the administrators fixing it...

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post #3 of 4
2/8/11 at 1:52pm
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This cursor thing has been here for a very long time and I have reported it. Anyway, are you saying I can use a normal RCA cable to connect my 5.1 receiver to my soundcard? It needs to support dolby digital. The shop didn't have anything else other than this "subwoofer" cable, should it be better in quality?

 

Edit: after some searching I found a normal 5m coaxial cable on amazon for 10€, is there any quality difference?

If not, I'll return this "bass cable" take my 55€ and order the 10€ one from amazon.

http://www.amazon.de/5m-SunshineTronic-BlueLine-Digital-4xAbschirmung/dp/B001V78T90/ref=pd_sxp_grid_i_0_2 this is the one.

It is 4x shielded and the core is OFC-Copper (is this good?) The contacts are 24K gold which is nice too.

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post #4 of 4
2/8/11 at 3:00pm
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Originally Posted by naike View Post

This cursor thing has been here for a very long time and I have reported it. Anyway, are you saying I can use a normal RCA cable to connect my 5.1 receiver to my soundcard? It needs to support dolby digital. The shop didn't have anything else other than this "subwoofer" cable, should it be better in quality?

 

Edit: after some searching I found a normal 5m coaxial cable on amazon for 10€, is there any quality difference?

If not, I'll return this "bass cable" take my 55€ and order the 10€ one from amazon.

http://www.amazon.de/5m-SunshineTronic-BlueLine-Digital-4xAbschirmung/dp/B001V78T90/ref=pd_sxp_grid_i_0_2 this is the one.

It is 4x shielded and the core is OFC-Copper (is this good?) The contacts are 24K gold which is nice too.


As long as it has RCA ends, it's going to be fine.  Honestly, for very short runs (say, 0.5 m from a source to a DAC) you don't even really need a coaxial cable.  A normal two conductor cable probably will work fine in that situation.

 

But I assume it's at least a meters or so, but not 10+ meters - pretty much any coaxial cable is going to work perfectly fine.  Don't worry too much about the particular shielding, gold plating, or any of that - it doesn't have an audible effect unless it's so bad there's signal breakup.

 

Honestly, the most important thing is the mechanical construction of the connectors - are they well toleranced so they insert easily but still have a solid connection?  Most cables work fine, although repeated insertion and removal can take its toll.

 

In other words - yes, that cable should work fine, and with no quality difference.  There's nothing special that makes an RCA coaxial cable "digital" or special for subwoofers, except that there's just a single cable instead of a pair for analog stereo.

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