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while I am still in the camp of coax and optical produce the same quality sound, I just learned somthing new. I recall that someone here made a digital coax cable out of some things like a rusty nail and an old coat hanger, (I think it was Chromy but I dont remember) and it worked just fine. So I have always just used any old rca cable for my digital coax needs. Well with all the problems I had getting my new setup squared away I ended up needing a long audio cable. So again I just used a cheap av cable that the cable left me (to use as component video no less). I should have noticed something was not kosher when the first tip I plugged in snapped right off (it was Yellow), but I just went ahead and switched to the white and left it at that. This thing was terrible the audio would drop out all the time. And its quite anoying with a Sony reciever, because it takes so long to regognize digital signals, and it clicks when it does so, so we were constantly losing a half second or so of sound and then getting that anoying click. It was absolutly the worst when I watched the parachute scene from the second BoB episode, just about every 30 seconds or so it would drop out.
In the end, I replaced the cheap cable with one of my radio shack cables, and it works just fine.
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