Although connecting a soundbar to your TV is often a subset of our previous point, regarding keeping older gear in service, there are actually two different reasons why you might want to use the optical digital audio connection on your TV with your soundbar. First, you may have an older ...
Because it sends only sound, an optical audio cable is usually used with a video-only cable, such as DVI (Digital Visual Interface) or S-video. So, what's the catch? Well, optical cables tend to be somewhat brittle, and the plastic ones are not as lossless as their glass counterparts...
Optical compressors, especially those that don't use super-well-behaved integrated optical circuits (or those that use them imaginatively) usually impose more of their own character on the material being treated, making it sound larger than life. In this context, the compressor is as much an ef...
An optical encoder is a device that uses light (and sometimes sound) to track motion in one or more dimensions. In order to measure position accurately, the sensing part of an optical encoder must be located at the endpoint that it’s measuring movement from (this could be on a motor sha...
So if you have multiple current generation consoles and a Dolby Atmos soundbar you won’t be able to run them all at full speed. This, plus the fact its frame rate is capped at 120Hz, rather than the 144Hz seen on many rivals, means it’s not the best option for the limited ...
Soundbars Vehicle stereo receivers TVs SomeBlu-ray players have eliminated digital optical as an audio connection, instead opting for anHDMI-only output for both audio and video. If you have a home theater receiver with digital optical connections but no HDMI connections, make sure the devices ...
- Can be beaten for sound - Functional build - No optical output The AX Series is Cambridge Audio’s most affordable range of separates, and while the AXC35 makes a couple of compromises to keep the price down, there are still plenty of reasons to recommend it. For starters there’s the...
The audio signal is capable of traveling both ways to and from the speakers, which will improve the sound quality and latency of the signal. In other words, you don't need a second optical or audio cable connected to an HDMI ARC-compatible speaker. To connect y...
An audio output device is a device that turns the sound waves data that a computer generates into usable sound signals. These electrical signals will... See full answer below. Learn more about this topic: Computer Output Devices: Monitors, Speakers, & Printers ...
Line out connections are generally designed for stereo audio signals, meaning left and right channels. If you want to transmit multi-channel audio, such as surround sound, you would need to use a different connection type, such as high-definition multimedia interface (HDMI) or optical audio, wh...