My TV has both connections RCA and Optical. Which connection will give me the best performance?
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Response is based on the quality of the signal source, not the connections. Everyone's ears (and brain) hear differently. As a senior citizen (and then some), volume solved a great deal of problems.
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Optical cable consists of glass fibers and transmits a signal in a form of light, practically with no distorsion.
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That would work for sure. If you can use a Toslink cable that would be better (AmazonBasics Digital Optical Audio Toslink Cable). Look on your receiver/tv for a square connection, it usually has a blank piece of plastic in it to keep it clean. This would provide and optical audio connection.
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Answer number 2 is exactly what I would do. Adapter from RCA analog to Digital optical. I have a Sony 200 disc cd player but lucky for me it has an optical out jack.
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The best quality sound, and the easiest way, is to get a Digital Optical Cable. One plug in, one plug out to TV. I bought one from Amazon Basics, and it has worked great for the last 7 months. Not to expensive, either.
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optical will always give the best since it's not affected by any interferences like in the case of audio going over the wire. having said that in most cases you won't really notice a significant difference. In case of CS3 please don't be alarmed if you don't hear audio from TV over optical. Some TV s doesn't output PCM audio over optical and CS3 will not be able to decode and play the encoded audio since it does not have an inbuilt decoder. In such cases you should check if the TV has a configuration option to output PCM audio/ or use a decoder like the Giffen between TV and CS3. Enjoy your CS3.
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First of all, you need an amplifier (or receiver) that connects TV and speaker. In this case, your TV is like a CD player.Buy a cheap receiver that have several connecting option including traditional stereo jack, optical. Of course you need to buy a optical cable.New TVs tend to have only optical.
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Since the only signal you need to send to the unit is audio, the only input connections you care about are 2 analog (RCA to 3.5mm or 3.5mm to RCA) and 2 digital (Digital Optical or Digital Coaxial). Digital gives you a better quality sound, but I would send the digital audio directly from the source (Receiver or Blu-Ray player) and not the TV. For best results, I use a fiber optic (Toslink) cable from Blu-ray player to Sound bar.
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I solved all mt sound problems and eliminted all the RCA plug by using an optical video/audio cable directly from my Kenwood receiver to the TV. Sound great!
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I am sorry, but I am unable to help you. I use my RCA unit only for playback of DVDs...
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Optical was the option I chose. It also allowed RCA and another funny square connector that I don't remember well.
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I have a dvd vcr player combo and it only had the standard rca connections. I hooked it up and it worked great. Even with a hdmi coupler between hdmi cables. I switched between the 720 and 1080 settings but couldn't tell a big difference but they both worked. It's definitely worth a shot.
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Any speakers that use RCA, digital optical, or 1/8 inch speaker cables. The TV has pretty good sound quality on its own, but for the best sound quality you would need a receiver in which you would hook your speaker system up to.
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optical will always give the best since it's not affected by any interferences like in the case of audio going over the wire. having said that in most cases you won't really notice a significant difference. In case of CS3 please don't be alarmed if you don't hear audio from TV over optical. Some TV s doesn't output PCM audio over optical and CS3 will not be able to decode and play the encoded audio since it does not have an inbuilt decoder. In such cases you should check if the TV has a configuration option to output PCM audio/ or use a decoder like the Giffen between TV and CS3.Enjoy your CS3. optical will always give the best since it's not affected by any interferences like in the case of audio going over the wire. having said that in most cases you won't really notice a significant difference. In case of CS3 please don't be alarmed if you don't hear audio from TV over optical. Some TV s doesn't output PCM audio over optical and CS3 will not be able to decode and play the encoded audio since it does not have an inbuilt decoder. In such cases you should check if the TV has a configuration option to output PCM audio/ or use a decoder like the Giffen between TV and CS3.Enjoy... » Read More optical will always give the best since it's not affected by any interferences like in the case of audio going over the wire. having said that in most cases you won't really notice a significant difference. In case of CS3 please don't be alarmed if you don't hear audio from TV over optical. Some TV s doesn't output PCM audio over optical and CS3 will not be able to decode and play the encoded audio since it does not have an inbuilt decoder. In such cases you should check if the TV has a configuration option to output PCM audio/ or use a decoder like the Giffen between TV and CS3.Enjoy your CS3. « Show Less
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Hello Erwin, I'm not sure but as far as I know this cable (RCA) is analog and you are not going to be able to convert the signal from analog to digital signal (optical cable) without a converter. Hopefully this will help you. Later man.
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The RCA's are only input on the TV. The only audio output it has is a Digital Audio Output which is coaxal, so your receiver needs a digital audio coaxal input.
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This didn't work for me. I have a TV with a digital output and a sound bar with rca inputs and optical inputs. I ended up buying a digital to optical converter for twenty five bucks. It works good.
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Yes the shown RCA is the red and white connections to a 3.5mm jack, this cable comes with the speakers. Optical is the better option as it allows for digital transmission which will have higher sound quality than the analog transmission through an RCA input.