SPDIF coax cable lengths

[SeriousPigeon]

How long a cable run can I have with high quality coax cable for SPDIF and not get any significant signal degradation?

I want to do ~10 metres, maybe more.

Thanks.

 

[Caged]

It's digital so I don't think it will really be an issue, unless your cable is damaged in some way.

Quality doesn't make a difference.

 

[monkeyspank]

Goes without saying really to try to run it away from power cables/sources. Or use fibre.

 

[Caged]

What will power cables do to it? It's digital, shoving it next to a power cable isn't going to introduce enough interference for the signal to drop out.

Hell, I've used the crappy composite video cables that come free with graphics cards as digital coax cables before.

 

[Matblack]

I'd use fibre myself

MB

 

[monkeyspank]

What will power cables do to it? It's digital, shoving it next to a power cable isn't going to introduce enough interference for the signal to drop out.

Hell, I've used the crappy composite video cables that come free with graphics cards as digital coax cables before.

It's digital, yes, but still electrical. Coaxial cables are screened for a reason. That screen is by no means perfect.

 

[SeriousPigeon]

I'd use fibre myself

MB

Would this not be very expensive, as opposed to 20 metres of a high street electical retailers finest coax and 2 phono plugs?

 

[monkeyspank]

Tenner from auction site for the fibre.

 

[james.miller]

i've run a 10 meter length of the cheapest rca cable i could find (around the room) along side 3 pairs of speaker cable and next to mains cable at the pc end.......absolutely no problems.

 

[Aruffell]

Ran a 10 metre cable today from an Audigy sound card to a Techniks amp to Tannoy speakers, sounded crisp as anything

 

[SeriousPigeon]

Coax it is then. Just need a soundcard with SPDIF output now.