SPDIF Coaxial

[DarkWater]

Hi There

I currently have an ASUS Motherboard with a onboard SPDIF Coaxial plug aswell as an Logitech Z5400 Surround System with Coaxial and Digital in.

The motherboard does not have a optical out so i can't connect it to the system via a Toslink cable..so I will need to go with the yellow coaxial plug
...my question is does coaxial use a specific cable or do i just use a standard Single RCA cable to connect

 

[CCABW]

Single RCA should be fine. Funny thing, co-ax and RCA is pretty much the same thing in principal, the Co-ax cables typically have (better) shielding to prevent outside interference

 

[DarkWater]

So let me get this right... you connect 1 single RCA cable from the sound card to the reciever

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and you instantly have digital surround sound?

 

[werner]

yes.
no more painful than what you have described.

 

[nihilist]

I'd reccomend you buy a proper SPDIF Coax cable rated for digital out, your standard RCA elcheapo isn't really fit for the bandwidth that is required for digital.

Hi There

I currently have an ASUS Motherboard with a onboard SPDIF Coaxial plug aswell as an Logitech Z5400 Surround System with Coaxial and Digital in.

The motherboard does not have a optical out so i can't connect it to the system via a Toslink cable..so I will need to go with the yellow coaxial plug
...my question is does coaxial use a specific cable or do i just use a standard Single RCA cable to connect