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2010-05-01 12:31:12
_j5689_
Dreads & Bergers
+364|6975|Riva, MD
I found a place where I can get them dirt cheap:

http://www.monoprice.com/products/subde … p_id=10236

But I'm wondering if it will make a big difference in quality as to whether I connect from the TV to the audio receiver, or the from the cable box to the audio receiver.

It seems like from the cable box to the receiver will be better quality and that's what I use most of the time but I'd like to be able to use the XBox 360 through the sound system as well on family occasions where I hook it up to the TV, and since there's no way to connect Digital Coaxial on the 360, I would assume it the sound can come through the TV while the 360 streams through the HDMI cable, which would make that seem like the better option.

So will it affect the quality too much if I connect it to from the TV to the receiver instead?  The cable box already goes to the TV via HDMI if that matters.

The system is also a 5.1 surround system + 1080i upconverter DVD player but the rear speakers haven't been hooked up although the receiver still has a stereo mode for the two front speakers that are hooked up, and those obviously sound way better than the TV's speakers.

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2010-05-01 12:36:19
TheDonkey
Eat my bearrrrrrrrrrr, Tonighttt
+163|5975|Vancouver, BC, Canada
With digital, it really doesn't matter.

Some may say that it does and that you'll get shit quality, but it really doesn't.

With digital, it either works or it doesn't.

This is why monster cables are bullshit.

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2010-05-01 12:43:47
jsnipy
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+3,277|6781|...

TheDonkey wrote:

This is why monster cables are bullshit.
QFT
2010-05-01 12:47:15
TheDonkey
Eat my bearrrrrrrrrrr, Tonighttt
+163|5975|Vancouver, BC, Canada
The one situation where you may possibly want to use Monster cables would be in an analog environment. But if you're shopping in a store that sells monster cables, then you PROBABLY don't have an expensive enough/high-quality enough receiver/system to actually take advantage of them. And if you do, you wouldn't be asking whether you need monster cables to begin with. So for the sake of argument,

Monster Cables are Bullshit.

http://consumerist.com/2008/03/do-coat- … ables.html

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2010-05-01 12:50:58
_j5689_
Dreads & Bergers
+364|6975|Riva, MD

TheDonkey wrote:

With digital, it really doesn't matter.

Some may say that it does and that you'll get shit quality, but it really doesn't.

With digital, it either works or it doesn't.

This is why monster cables are bullshit.
I know that that the cable doesn't really matter, but I'm wondering if the device matters, I have to think that a cable box is going to have better audio chips and stuff like that since it's designed to trasmit everything closer to the source media like a DVD player would, whereas the TV is a passthrough from everything and is designed as such so you would have to think it wouldn't do anything to improve the quality and might even degrade it based on the way the TV handles the data.  I think this because of my experience with how VCRs typically shit on the quality of the signal coming from coaxial TV cables when they are used as a passthrough when a composite cable is absent.  But is that because TV coaxial is an analog signal whereas Digital Coaxial is a digital signal?
2010-05-01 13:00:50
TheDonkey
Eat my bearrrrrrrrrrr, Tonighttt
+163|5975|Vancouver, BC, Canada
Oh, guess I misread the OP.

In theory, it shouldn't matter, the TV should just switch where the data comes from (internal decoder vs external input) instead of actually doing anything with the data.
But depending on how dumb the manufacturer is, they might have some form of recalculation circuit which might mess with the signal.
2010-05-01 13:05:52
_j5689_
Dreads & Bergers
+364|6975|Riva, MD

TheDonkey wrote:

Oh, guess I misread the OP.

In theory, it shouldn't matter, the TV should just switch where the data comes from (internal decoder vs external input) instead of actually doing anything with the data.
But depending on how dumb the manufacturer is, they might have some form of recalculation circuit which might mess with the signal.
In other words, it should be a straight-through untouched signal?  And would Sharp do anything weird like that with their Aquos line of TVs?  That's what I have.
2010-05-01 13:38:22
alexb
<3
+590|6198|Kentucky, USA

It's simpler to have the cable box to the receiver.
When I had my DVD player going to the TV to the receiver, it wouldn't pick up the DD signal, unless I had the DVD player connected directly to the receiver via coaxial.

 

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