A note on cables...
Just for the information of the group, I once read a report on
different cabling methodologies and the results of the report were.
The bandwidth of audio interconnect/rca type cables is poor at best
no matter what the length, metal or other marketing bull. The test
compared most major brand cables against... wait for it... twisted pair!
UTP or STP is more efficient than any coax cables, and with gold
connectors you get slightly better signal quality. HOWEVER! the
cables to your speakers should be as high gauge as possible to
prevent the cable overheating.
So basically for any passive transmission you should use cheap UTP
for best quality signal and least interference. Remember Cat5e can
carry a 1Gb signal with less than 0.2% attenuation.
Hope this helps.
Karl,
On 14 Jun 2005, at 18:26, ts North wrote:
--- Jason Tackaberry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 08:37 -0700, ts North wrote:
Here is a fun project I just completed that
involves
Freevo, a VCR and an old computer:
http://www.northsecure.com/vcrvo/
Cool! The jog shuttle knob looks like it got a
little beat up. :)
Not too bad. The best thing about it is it is a big
target and I can boot the computer with my foot (no
pun intended)
But
this is a really nice mod.
You say cable quality made a difference for your
audio connection. Can
you elaborate on that a bit?
I think original RCA cables I tried were extreemely
thin
gauge, a compgeeks.com $.05 special, zero signal.
The digital coax cable that came with the home theater
system worked fine. Standard RCAs would probably have
worked, I'll try next time I open it up.
What kind of quality
problems did you have
before? I have never had any audio problems when
using even the
cheapest, crappiest RCA cables I had available,
because it's all
digital. :) The only thing I can think of that
would cause an audio
problem with coaxial digital is a ground loop, but
you'd have problems
even with a high quality cable.
Cheers,
Jason.
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