Splitting 1 Digital Coax Signal and feeding 2 Amps...

Judas

I have a very good idea that you can't do this by just buying a RCA 1x to 2x RCA Y splitter adapters and then running each cable to thier own system.... although would sound like a simple enough tasks, it can't be due to power and other reasons.

Anyone know of the hardware required to do this? If i recall right, they both have to fall into the 75ohms and specific other frequencies. Essentially what i want to do is run a single let say, computer, dvd player, whatever, via a Digital Coax connection. But feed 2 Digital Receivers with the EXACT same thing, this would allow me fill an Extremely LARGE room or multiple rooms.

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dj_stick

1x RCA to 2x RCA adaptor/cable will do the job, provided the cables in use are of a decent quality, and the length is relatively short, you should have no problems

I'm not sure if you've tried it, sounds like you haven't from your use of the word "idea." It may reduce the impedence a bit, but most consumer level gear is designed to work within a range of the optimal impedence, and with high quality cables you shouldn't have much of a problem


but as for the point of using two receivers for one room, why? you're only going to create acoustic chaos - best to run a single, higher-powered amp with fewer higher rating speakers than multiple amps and speakers - you're positioning is going to be all over the place and I don't even want to think about the phase cancellations...


EDIT: Another thing - why not use decent analogue connections, as especially from a decent soundcard (read: not onboard) you'll get a better audio quality than the lossy compression used by multi-channel audio over spdif, as the audio will be uncompressed and the coverters and opamps in a decent soundcard are generally far better than those in low-mid level receivers.

EDIT2: Another option, many DVD players I've seen have both optical spdif (toslink) and coaxial enabled at the same time, so why not use one of each? A few soundcards also have that option, I know the Live/Audigy series definately does (with the use of a seperate bracket/5.25" drive)

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Judas

yes i've suggested a single much more powerful system would be superior then 2.

however the problem is cost... and they are far to cheap to bother..

Essentially the system IF is to be setup in a single room, is to mount the speakers that are producing the same audio.. side by side... so essentially doubling up. And the reason being is that they are sticking with 5.1 surround sound solution. With the split of every analog connection, they wanted to deal with the least amount of connections as possible.

12 individual RCA cables can leave for quite a mess. Plus the 2 systems would likely not be the same distance....

They are more setting this up for experimentation and i figured i'd throw in my own dollars to see what would happen.

I'll TRY a RCA Y plug with the coax... guess we'll find out.

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