these only come with a co-axial connection from the decoder - has anyone got these and connected them up to the 360 and sky box using the optical connection? I presume there is a cable that goes into the decoder and the other end is an optical out?

Hope this makes sense and really appreciate the help of these forums, as always!

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Originally Posted by godzoooky

these only come with a co-axial connection from the decoder - has anyone got these and connected them up to the 360 and sky box using the optical connection? I presume there is a cable that goes into the decoder and the other end is an optical out?

Hope this makes sense and really appreciate the help of these forums, as always!

Haven't got a 360 or Sky. I have connected it up via Tos Optical to my DVD player.

The digital coaxial socket also takes a optical cable. The other input socket takes an analog input. All these are 3.5mm sockets.

Basically for an optical connection you need a Toslink optical 3.5mm converter/adapter- will cost you around £2. This plugs onto a Toslink optical cable (have to purchase optical cable as an extra) and changes the plug to 3.5mm (which the HQ2300D accepts as input)

For a single phono cable to get a 3.5mm jack you need a phono to 3.5mm adapter from Cut Price Cables for £2 delivered. I think it is on the digital coaxial web page.

I advise upgrading the cables. The ones that come with it are cheap.

Go for HQ OFC cables for:

3.5mm jack to 3.5mm jack

digital coaxial

and get HQ TOS Optical cable.

Look on Ebay or use a search engine and you will find the above cables and adapters.

The Creative HQ2300D adapter is excellent. Let me know if you need any other help with it.