RCA Connectors are the most flexible and common form of hooking up two components in a home entertainment system.

Single RCA
Used for Digital Audio, Composite Video, Subwoofer and Centre channel signals. Digital Audio allows multiple channels to be transmitted through a single cable. Most critical listeners prefer a single RCA Digital coaxialcable to a Fibre Optic cable because of its ability to sound more natural. Composite Video, Subwoofer and Centre channel are conventional analogue signals and are transmitted through their own dedicated cable.

2 RCA
Used almost always for the transmission of Stereo Audio signals. Colour coded Red for the Right Audio channel and White for the Left Audio channel. It is the most common type of cable and is supplied free withequipment by Hi Fi manufacturers. It is important to bear in mind that free interconnects do not allow the equipment they are supplied with to reach it’s performance potential.

3 RCA
Used primarily in Home Theatre applications for the transmission of the Left Audio channel, Right Audio channel and Video picture signal. It is also used increasingly for the transmission of Component or RGB Video, so called because the video picture signal is separately transmitted in its three component colours of red, greenand blue. This format is included in many new equipment formats including DVD, Satellite and Plasma and Projection Colour TVs. The format delivers increased colour resolution with more detail and realism than is possible with conventional S-Video or Composite Video connections. It will also likely become the standard with High Definition Television “HDTV”.

6 RCA
A highly versatile configuration originally pioneered by IXOS®. It is most commonly used for Dolby Digital™ solutions, consisting of 6 separate channels of audio - Left Front, Centre, Right Front, Right Rear, Left Rear,and Subwoofer. The extensive versatility of this configuration means that it has a wide variety of Home Theatre applications for both audio and video.