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How can I improve cableTV audio?

I currently run my cable TV directly into my Samsung Tantus TXN2798HF 27" CRT tv, and then take a pair of RCA audio outs to my VAC preamp.

The sound for TV through my stereo this way isn't very good at all, better than just the TV alone, but I'm wondering if I can do better? like run the coax cable into something else (a DAC? something else?) and then run the video signal onto the TV, and the audio onto my preamp?
dennis_the_menace

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avguygeorge
2,300 posts
 
Yup Reubent nailed it. The best thing is to get an older box where the output is 44.1 or 48----Then hook that to a 2ch dac.----I have 2 direct boxes--one each. (DD and 48hrtz)
avguygeorge
2,300 posts
 
What you would be looking for is an older box. The rf screw connector cable goes into the cable box,as usual.(Cable-in) Then out of the box you run a coax to a 2ch dac. Years ago most cable company boxes had a coax-out. In fact I go back to the dmx radio;from my cable co.---I think thier present boxes do DD for the movie stations(hbo etc) and 48 for the music stations.---(48 is a 2ch. digital format) This is how it was 2/3 years back and I don't know how it works today. To repeat; the goods are in there.
avguygeorge
2,300 posts
 
While you can route the audio through a vcr---that method isn't any better than just using the box's analog straight to a 2ch pre. The goods are there--you just need to keep it digital--to a quaity 2 ch. dac. This refers to the older non DD / but still has a digital out, box. The setup I have will challenge many cd systems. (I use the Audiomecca Enkianthus dac.)
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