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<blockquote data-quote="yacob.naif" data-source="post: 2040255" data-attributes="member: 565696">he&#039;s talking about an rca subwoofer pre-out cableand as for the cable making much or any of a difference, i&#039;d love to see some actual metered benchtests, because when i first took my old stereo to work, i forgot to bring an rca to hook up to SPDIF connection between my cdplayer and my receiver, so i found a stereo-rca to minijack cable in the shop, and spliced the two rca ends together with some duct tape for a temporary cable, and it worked just fine.I even did a side-by side comparison, attaching the spliced cable, and then the new cable i brought with me the next day, and i couldn&#039;t tell a difference.And as for opti vs. SPDIF, i&#039;d use SPDIF for HT setups unless you already have an opti cable at home to use, the longest distance between my components at home&#039;s probably ~10 inches, optical digital connections are really handy for studio technicians and such, who have cables strewn 20-100 feet, crap, or internet/phone connections between the US and Europe is a good application, as well, but it&#039;s really not necessary at home.&nbsp; optical cables have less/no degradation in signal over distance, but way more initial degradation, so for short distances, the SPDIF&#039;s the way to go for sure.I&#039;d use SPDIF whenever possible, and keep your optical connections open for components that don&#039;t have SPDIF connections (some dvd players/PS2)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="yacob.naif, post: 2040255, member: 565696"] he's talking about an rca subwoofer pre-out cable and as for the cable making much or any of a difference, i'd love to see some actual metered benchtests, because when i first took my old stereo to work, i forgot to bring an rca to hook up to SPDIF connection between my cdplayer and my receiver, so i found a stereo-rca to minijack cable in the shop, and spliced the two rca ends together with some duct tape for a temporary cable, and it worked just fine. I even did a side-by side comparison, attaching the spliced cable, and then the new cable i brought with me the next day, and i couldn't tell a difference. And as for opti vs. SPDIF, i'd use SPDIF for HT setups unless you already have an opti cable at home to use, the longest distance between my components at home's probably ~10 inches, optical digital connections are really handy for studio technicians and such, who have cables strewn 20-100 feet, crap, or internet/phone connections between the US and Europe is a good application, as well, but it's really not necessary at home. optical cables have less/no degradation in signal over distance, but way more initial degradation, so for short distances, the SPDIF's the way to go for sure. I'd use SPDIF whenever possible, and keep your optical connections open for components that don't have SPDIF connections (some dvd players/PS2) [/QUOTE]

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