How can I improve cableTV audio?

Dennis,

I don't know of any DAC or otherwise that will accept the raw coax feed from cableTV. If you have digital cable, generally the set top cable box will have digital outputs. Sometimes these digital cable boxes can be set to PCM and the output can be decoded by a DAC, however the last two different digital cable boxes that I've owned output DD encoded signals only. A DAC will not decode dolby digital.

Enjoy,

TIC

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)

If it's not digital cable you might try routing your cable through a HiFi VCR and connecting the audio from that to your stereo. You'd need to use your VCR remote to change channels.

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.)

Any idea where I can find a non DD (that stands for Dolby Digital?) cable box? How does that work... I run the raw cable into this box, and then run digital out to my DAC, and another Coax to the TV?