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bflora1952
22nd February 2003, 16:28
I would like to send the digital out from my Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card to my audio receiver in another room. This requires at least 40 feet of cable. Normal A/V cable will not carry digital this far. Does anyone know how to accomplish this goal(amplyfier or low loss cable)?
U-235
23rd February 2003, 11:10
I'm using an approximately 30 metre long normal (75 ohm?, not sure) antenna cable for sending SPDIF audio to a receiver in another room. It works very well. I had to attach the connectors to the cable myself because normally RCA connectors aren't used with antenna cable. There are no amplifiers between the computer (SB Live) and the receiver (Yamaha RX-V595).
GAteKeeper
24th February 2003, 21:59
You should be ok for that length. Just make sure you build a decent cable: 75ohm, gold RCA and gold 3.5mm jack.

Slight caveat with the turtle beach - both channels produce digital sound with standard o/p but only one gets AC3 streamed out with AC3Filter (see my posts in http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=33224&perpage=20&pagenumber=10 ).

Dont you just love the Yamaha Amps U-235 - I have a RX-V795aRDS

GAteKeeper