I cannot use an Optical Audio (digital) output from my TV to the 580. Will an analog audio (RCA connectors) input sound as good?
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No. If you 've never heard the difference no loss. Once you do go digital you won't go back the saying goes. When you upgrade to a smart tv you will be all set. By the way it does sound awesome for exactly what it is. A quality box.
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15 April 2014 2pmIf your PC's AUDIO OUTPUT is a Fiber optic connector then this will work because its INPUT is fiber 0ptic connector and its OUTPUTS are RCA L and R.
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yes you can. if you don't have an optical or hdmi cable port on your tv, you can use the rca jacks for input/output
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I assume that you don't have an audio RCA output either. Many newer TV's only have a Toslink or Coax connector. I connect my Sennheiser to my Samsung SMART TV with a digital to analog converter. They accept Toslink or Coax inputs.The cheaper ones only take PCM and can be found for $10 to $25 on the internet. It works great for me.
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Yes, except you can't use analog coax (red & yellow) for audio. Only digital coax is supported.
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I have two Asus Xonar sound cards that send digital signal from my computers to older MSB DACs. The sound is quite wonderful, very musical. I prefer to use the optical out if I can, but coax seems to work very well too. These are both in older computers that are dedicated to audio playback only.
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Most all-in-one 5.1 surround sound systems will be strictly analog, meaning they will only accept RCA audio input. Most current model TV's however have only HDMI or Digital Optical audio output (and in some cases a 3.5 mm headphone jack). If the TV has a headphone jack then a 3.5 mm to RCA cable can be used, otherwise you would indeed need to find a digital to analog audio converter. A work around may also be to use your cable or satellite boxes RCA audio outputs as this will at least get your regular TV audio passed through the system. You would then have to manually connect a DVD or other device when you want to use it or get a small RCA input selector box. Some of these 5.1 units accept 6 individual RCA inputs to offer true 5.1 separation as opposed to spreading a stereo field across 5 speakers, and those units work best with BluRay, DVD players, or PS units that have these tyoe of individualized audio outouts in them). I hope that helps!
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I got this to do the same and it appears that it did not work for ME going from my 2012 Mitsubishi 92" DLP 3D R.P big-screen Digital Coaxial to RCA (Red,White output ) inputing it to my new Samsung Home Theater system 3D-Blue-ray and I still got no sound.... My next try is the Digital coaxial converter to Optical input on the Home Theater, I hope this helps you. I wish us both luck.. Greg
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Armand S., What options do you have on the back of your audio system? RCA/3.5mm? Optical Audio? --Mr. S
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If you use the optical output you can get 5.1 possibly 7.1 but it does not do that with analog.
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I am not sure of the sound is is carried through the HDMI port. I do know that 1080p video is carried through the HDMI port. The monitor does have both a audio optical port input and standard audio 1/8 mini port input. Don't think there is any problem with using this monitor with a NVidia 780 GPU.
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I honestly don't know. I have several audio cards and have never bothered to use any of their digital features. I bought this card only because my onboard audio failed and I needed something to use in place of it. Sorry.
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Usually any product will sound superior using a digital cable (such as optical) vs analog (RCA). Having said that, you may not be able to tell a huge difference. Partially depends on what your source audio us. Bottom line, if you can use the optical connection, do it. I believe the Energy Power Base even comes with one. However, don't pass on the Energy Power Base if you can only use the RCA connection. It's worth it. The sound is wonderful!
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You may want to have all of your video/audio inputs go to the Yamaha RX-V477 first rather than to the TV. This will bypass any incompatibly that your TV will have. If your TV has HDMI inputs this will work very well. I don't know what your setup so it is possible that this will not work for you. I had an earlier model Yamaha that had trouble with analog inputs mixed with digital. Since I went all digital I haven't been able to test the Yamaha RX-V477 with a mix. If you get your TV over the air then this may not work for you but if you use cable or satellite, it should work quite well.
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I'm using a digital optical cable and it sounds amazing, if your a gamer and a have a Dolby Digital decoder the games sound amazing when the encoder is on but if you want the best audio quality go with the digital audio cable the card has two ports one in and one out.
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The red and white are RCA ports. That is how I have mine hooked up. I tried to use the optical audio port... And it sounded great, but the way things decode(I don't completely understand it) it doesn't work for a lot of audio. The black, I believe, is a mono rca input.
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if sound sys has rca out or in....???? PC in or out... must pass through what your are trying to do, but quality won't be high Price is reasonable to try... My denon receiver is good at passing through rca or HDMI. USB may need to be 3.0 or higher...