Okay...my dvd player only outputs digitally through coax. Is it true that I can just get a standard 75 ohm coax cable w/a bnc connector? I know that if you buy a cable marked "Digital Coax" it makes it more expensive from the get-go. But I was at walmart yesterday and I saw a black coax cable for video that was 75 ohm...could I just use that? Or would it be better to buy a "Digital Coax cable?"

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or you can just do what i did, you can get accoustic research cables, including digital coax, for pretty good prices. at least compared to monster. they are good quality and cost more than half of monster brand.

i shop at www.accessories4less.com or www.avconnect.com

both have good prices and ship relatively fast. if you decide to go this route, choose the one with cheaper shipping.

hope this helps.

Or you could just do the easiest thing. Take an AV cable(yellow composite video, left audio and right audio) and plug the use the video cable NOT EITHER OF THE AUDIO CABLES THOUGH. Only the video cable is thick enough(most are 75 ohms i believe). Works like a charm.

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Dave http://www.dvdtracker.com/~dfbennett

A 75 ohm video cable will do exactly the same job a expensive "Digital cable" will do. Save the money and go with the video cable at Walmart.

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Unless you have a very unusual DVD player and/or processor, you should get a cable with RCA connectors on both ends, not BNC connectors.

A video cable will work fine, although in a cable test last year, Home Theater concluded that, surprisingly, there were audible differences in cables (both coax and toslink) when making a digital hook up.

I have used a good monster video cable as my connector...I would say any differences in sound quality would probably only be detectable by individuals using sound meters or something of that nature.

I'm using a Monster digital coax for my DVD player. I saw the cable test in Home Theater last year also and it reinforced my choice, anything worth doing is worth doing right. You spend all that money on your equipment so it's no time to skimp on your cables.
Greg

The thing is after doing a little research on my own, I don't know how different coax cables could make a difference. The cable is transfering a series of bits that are either 1 or 0, off or on, and on a "bad" digital coax cable it should have a drop-out of sound, not less quality...see what I'm trying to say...

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I bought the Ixos digital coax on sale thru accessories4less after going to their site to get the AR on sale. Did I waste the extra $10 or so, I don't know, but the cable is very heavily shielded. the AR may be just as good, and the advanatage of these cables over regular RCA is (1) they are better shielded and (2) are rated truly at 75 ohm.

Bad cables can p[ick up interference, and create artifacts if the signal travels at different speds along th cable. Whether this is noticable to the ear is a separate question.