RCA/Optical Setup Help

[Icemanbrfc]

Hi need a bit of advice on this. My media player has HDMI, Optical and RCA ports. My Amp is a basic one only having RCA ports as well. I dont have the cash now to upgrade my amp to cater for say one with HDMI

My question is this

If i run RCA from media player to Amp, will i lose any sound quality say if i had to run HDMI to HDMI? I know one is Analogue and one is Digital, but would the Media Player somehow help in converting and improving the sound?

As i also have an optical port on the media player, is there a converter, that will run Optical via converter into RCA? and will that improve sound, or would it just be better to stick to RCA into RCA

Thanks

 

[Musicmp3]

use your digital coax port on amp - better than optical - normal RCA cable

So AUDIO out from media player to digital coax input on amp - simple!

 

[psion]

If you run RCA you will loose quality vs HDMI or SPDIF for sure.

If your AMP only has RCA ie only the red and white ones. Only use this, getting converters to go back to RCA wont help quality at all.

If you're amp has the orange SPDIF Coaxial connector that looks like RCA. You can use that for digital audio. However as above this is not the same cable. Yes it looks the same but the COAXIAL cable is much thicker and has a higher ohm rating. I have tested the normal cheap rca cable and it made no audio connection what so ever. Perhaps a higher quality one would work, but they really don't cost that much.