Are these Audio Optical Cables better than RCA Cables. Considering changing from RCA to Optical from my sound bar to my TV?
858343
The digital optical audio cable I purchased works just fine with my LG tv and LG sound bar. I had to use the audio optical output because the tv did not have any other audio output to hook up the sound bar. I have no RCA vs. digital optical audio comparison but, like I said, the cord worked fine.
858344
Works for me just fine so far. Very skinny and not as robust as quality RCA. Comes from China, if that's an issue.
858345
Sadly I was never able to get these cables to work...plugged them in and no sound came out
858346
Digital Optical are much better than RCA. They carry a 5.1 signal, not sure if your sound bar supports that or not... just beware that these cables (at least the ones I received) are not as pictured. They didn't come with the attached caps and were much thinner and more brittle.
245807
You can get an adapter cable to go from the RCA on the cd changer to a 3.5mm phono plug and then plug that into the audio in port of the soundbar. Not digital like the optical cable, but the changer isn't optical out anyways and this is much cheaper.
574242
I not sure I know what an optical audio cable is, so I don't know if I can answer your question or not.
27800
If I were u I would just get a optical audio cable if your tv and sound is setup for it you'll get a more pure sounds
1516977
Robert you can hook up optical audio input or an rca cable. i prefer the optical, the sound quality is definitely better :) . hope this helps
9158
I purchased 1.3a category 2 certified 28AWG 6 ft hdmi cables through monoprice that work equally well with the Steren gold-tipped video cables provided by my cable company. The cable guy told me they are equivalent, and I would agree with that after having compared them myself. However the cable guy did also tell me that optical audio cables would be needed to match the quality that hdmi cables would provide. I do not have a surround sound system so can't judge the difference on that. Ultimately I went with the hdmi cables because there is only one plug on each end and so simpler to disconnect and reconnect if need be. PS I also compared top of the line Monster Cable HDMI (over $100 each!) to the monoprice $5 cables and couldn't tell any difference. This is on a Sony 1080p xbr4 120hz tv with a Playstation 3 for Blu Ray/dvd player. I say if component cables work better for you, go with them.
300385
This looks like the device for you. I'm using the rca to feed our church's sound board. It looks like it'll do optical and rca out concurrently too.
221912
Unless you want your audio to go to a source other than your TV... like a 5.1 stereo setup. And in that case, you'll probably want to use the digital optical or digital coaxial audio output over RCA cables (unless your stereo doesn't support that).
1762296
Yes. This cable, plus an adapter for converting optical audio to analog (RCA) will do the job for you.
388371
I used a Vizio S3820w-CO for a few days until my digital optical converter came in and there were NO issues at all. The sound bar did soundbetter than the TV speakers, which are also not that bad at all. I needed the converter because the Samsung will not accept RCA type plugs for the audio output.
1890970
Yes, your tv has an optical digital output. Connect the digital cable to the sound bar and you are done.
522289
Yes, the sound bar comes with a RCA type audio cable. Your Vizio will have those connections. If your Vizio TV has a "digital optical output jack", you can get even better sound than the RCA type connection. I bought "AmazonBasics Digital Optical Audio Toslink Cable, 6 Feet." Works great. Just make SURE that the optical is plugged in all the way and that the little protective cover is removed from each connector!by AmazonBasics" for this type of connection.
1806620
I haven't tried it both ways, so I don't know that there's a difference. But I have my main connections go directly to the TV and run the optical cable for when I want better sound (which I don't always care about), and that works just fine.
134481
you could get a $10 ish converter box to take the optical to rca digital, I've had to do that for my audio receiver as it came with more rca digital, than optical, and HDMI was yet to include audio pass through at the time.
777599
It worked for me using the optical TV source converting it into simple RCA analog left & right cables. -- Wish I could give your mine, having sold my all but this :-)
1132817
My Philips TV does not have an optical output so I used the digital line out to the soundbar, the sound comes out pretty loud, on the other hand I used an optical out of my Bluray player. When I play a movie on the bluray, I am able to compare sounds by switching back and forth using the remote, the Optical sounds clearly louder and better than the digital line.
878862
I used optical high quality optical cable. I like that when T.V. is turned on sound bar turns on automatically.