What is the best RCA to 3.5mm cable you can buy?

BellaLuna
BellaLuna Posts: 12
edited April 2011 in Speakers
I bought a surroundbar IHT 6000 few days ago, and I just found out that this system does not support dts format. When playing saving private ryan in English, its dead silent through digital optical. But it plays when I use rca from blu ray to IHT6000 3.5mm.

The rca/3.5mm cable that I have is a low quality cable. Sound quality in between the digital optical cable and rca/3.5mm cable is a huge jump from good sounding to bad when playing music from Pandora. I was wondering if a good quality rca/3.5mm cable can come close to digital optical, and which one do you recommand? Thank you for helping me out

By the way sound quality on iht 6000 when I was watching the dark knight was amazing
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  • Zaigrith
    Zaigrith Posts: 42
    edited April 2011
    How about a nice RCA cable and then an adapter at the end? I feel like there are more choices out there for RCA cables as apposed to RCA to 3.5mm cables.
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  • BellaLuna
    BellaLuna Posts: 12
    edited April 2011
    What kind of adapter? Educate me please =D. IHT 6000 has 3 inputs, one digital optical and two 3.5mm
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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited April 2011
    http://signalcable.com/specialty_cables.html
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  • zingo
    zingo Posts: 11,258
    edited April 2011
    Anything Signal makes is quality, and Cardas also makes one if you want to go that direction.
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  • Windswell
    Windswell Posts: 10
    edited April 2011
    I just bought 25 foot and 35 foot AWG 22 3.5mm > RCA "Premium Cable" from Monoprice to connect an Ipod to AVR . The sound quality is great. 25' was $5. 35' was $7. about.
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited April 2011
    Zaigrith wrote: »
    How about a nice RCA cable and then an adapter at the end? I feel like there are more choices out there for RCA cables as apposed to RCA to 3.5mm cables.

    Very good point.
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  • BellaLuna
    BellaLuna Posts: 12
    edited April 2011
    steveinaz wrote: »
    Very good point.

    What kind of adapter are you guys talking about?
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  • cokewithvanilla
    cokewithvanilla Posts: 1,777
    edited April 2011
    BellaLuna wrote: »
    What kind of adapter are you guys talking about?

    like a Y adapter... two rca in's on one side, mini on the other..


    wouldn't it be difficult to find such an adapter in a good quality?

    bluejeans also has this cable
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  • Hawkeye
    Hawkeye Posts: 1,313
    edited April 2011
    The best? Hard to say but I run all WireWorld wires in my system.

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