HELP

[iamgriz2]

What is an optical digital cable? And what is a analog cable? WHAT ARE THE CABLES?!

Yo Grizz of Grizz:

Analog: when you hear the sounds through speakers, it's ANALOG.

When you record with a computer or digital box, you can't hear anything because of the numbers that fill-in for sounds; when you play it back after recording, then, you hear it and it is analog.

So, cables:???: Well, analog connections can be XLR [ a better connection] or 1/4 inch plugs which most boxes incorporate for whatever reason.

Cable quality: you can stir up a storm of responses dealing with "good" cablels or just cables. I'll avoid that trap but I like quality cables and quality is a personal definition.

Some recording boxes come with optical/digital plugs so you can move stuff from one digital box to another digital box and the transfer is very clean and clear and wonderful -- USUALLY>

The analog connections are SOUND TO SOUND. Kind of like hearing with your ears when you wife is singing in the shower -- off key. So, study this forum and its forums and its forums and its forums and you will begin to know cables from turkey gobbles.

Green Hornet

[This message has been edited by Ben Mocini (edited 07-03-2000).]

[Kelly Holdridge]

Optical Digital Cable: fiber optics (like those lights you see at novelty shops). The signal is converted to digital, then to light bursts, and then back again at the other end.

Analog is regualar cable. Based on electricity, not light.

Optical: light, (must be digital)
Analog: electric

I have no idea what Ben is talking about.

[Nilbog]

On the back of a digital piece of equpiment, you will see pairs of RCA's. These are digital. THe single RCA-looking thingy is digital, and the squreish looking port (sometimes with a plug in it that looks like a square thumbtack) is digital lightpipe. What equpiment are you looking at?