I have a sony progressive scan dvd player, a mitsubishi big screen and an Onkyo receiver. On the advice of the salesman at Circuit City I purchased three sets of analog Monster cables for my surround sound, a coaxial digital cable and a optical digital cable. I currently have all three running from my dvd player to my receiver. I think I have too much because I can disconnect anyone of the three and it still works, however I want to be able to support all audio connections. Is the optical digital cable all I need to handle all audio formats. Please help
Derek
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If the Sony is a SACD player, all you need are the 3 pairs of analog cables. Otherwise, either of the digital cables will do.
Get your money back for the extra cables. At the very least you don't need two digital cables.
Hope this helps.
EricG
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You need the 3 pairs if you listen to surround SACD - typically, you can just use the one digital cable - coax is usually better than the optical. You go out with the digital coax and the receiver processes the signal into surround - Dolby digital for example. Going through the analog cable uses the DVD's DAC for surround decoding.