Consumer Electronics FAQ
Would switching from standard RCA cable (Red, White) to a Coaxial cable restore my nouns competence?
Currently, I'm running standard, non-gold-plated RCA cables from my middle-class Phillips HTS nouns system to my TV.A friend of mine said that if I switched from RCA to a Coaxial cable, it would make my system nouns a lot better.
Is in that any truth to that?
And, what do you suggest?
Answers:
Not much for TV, but for DVDs and if you use cable/satellite, you might see improvement.
Unless he be talking around a digital coax cable used for surround sound, he's wrong. Even afterwards, you'd still be using your TV's speakers, which aren't very dutiful, and don't do surround sound (yes, I know some TVs can do "fakey surround sound" near 2 speakers, but it sounds no where essential as good as if you be using 5 multiple speakers and a real subwoofer.)
The standard red & white RCA cable carry a stereo signal - which an prehistoric RFU coax connection does not support, so you would in actual fact get worse nouns by switching.
If you want better sound standard, you can connect the red & white cables to your stereo or surround system and use those speakers instead. You'll lone get stereo, but TV speakers aren't the best within the world, so you should notice a big restructuring - especially for movies.
Yes.
The Red, White cable carry analog stereo. This resources 2 channels of nouns. Your Phillips HTS system 'fakes' this to feed 5 speakers, but you with the sole purpose have 2 channel to start with.
A coaxial-digtal cable can transport Dolby Digital 5.1 sound. This is 6 separate channel that your Phillips system wont have to spurious.
In truth - you wont notice much difference from your cable box as most TV is stereo only. But if you own HD channels - you will acquire things like Lost or Sara Connor Chronicals surrounded by 5.1 sound. Very cool.
And your DVD's will own better surround sound because you will carry the 5 separate sounds that the sound get designed.
The coaxial-digital cable is simply a video cable. These usually have washed out RCA plugs. If you have one lying around - use it. Or seize a budget video cable from Radio Shack or the AR Pro cables from Best Buy. If you mean coax as within Digital audio, yes.
Plus if you have a digital TV and you use the tuner, the single way to go by multi-channel audio to your receiver is through the digital audio output.