Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site eosp1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!astrovax!fisher!eosp1!lincoln From: lincoln@eosp1.UUCP (Dick Lincoln) Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: VCR to STEREO connecting technique Message-ID: <1333@eosp1.UUCP> Date: Wed, 9-Jan-85 16:36:23 EST Article-I.D.: eosp1.1333 Posted: Wed Jan 9 16:36:23 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 11-Jan-85 23:10:34 EST References: <1381@hplabs.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Exxon Office Systems, Princeton, NJ Lines: 33 > What I do for the problem of connecting my Beta-HiFi VCR to > the stereo amp is very simple. A got a 40 Ft. roll of audio type cable > from Radio Shack and a pack of RCA jacks. I made two 20 ft. cables > and connected them up. They work fine. Total cost about $6.00. > Why blow all your dough on cables when inexpensive stuff works > as well????? > As far as using short audio and long RF cables, I can't figure that > one out. It seems to me that cable losses are far greater at RF than > AF. Were talking about 62-68 Mhz. RF (presuming your using channel 3 > out of your VCR. if not then were talking about 3 to 4 Mhz video) > verses 20-20Khz AF. > Oh well, I guess I see Godzilla Cable, et al, as the pet rocks of > audio. Re audio vs video cable losses: The difference is that video output and input circuits are impedance matched in the video band to the cable's characteristic impedance, while the audio equipment's input and output circuitry is not (not less than 600 ohms, output; 100K ohms or larger, input). Therefore the cable attentuation, while perhaps much greater in overall amount at video compared to audio frequencies, may not shape the waveforms coming across as much in the video band as it does in the audio, and thus causes less perceived video than audio distortion. Hence you can probably get away with cheaper coax cable in the video rather than the audio spectrum. Re "Godzilla", etc.: Several contributers to this group have given plausible evidence for audio performance improvement of relatively high fidelity systems with Monster Cable, etc. This is probably due as much to the better connectors that come with these higher priced cables as it is to the cables themselves.