Rocketfish is a premium digital coaxial cable that is ideal for hooking a DVD player up to an AV receiver. Naturally, this cable is only one small part of a square meal. If you think of your speakers as a platter of ruby red lobster, then digital coaxial cable is the sweet, melty butter sauce that brings out the flavor. The only hang-up is a limited array of cable length options. If the available lengths match your digital coaxial cable needs, you will eat this up.
Data transfer along a coaxial cable is corruptible by outside interference, so digital coaxial cables must provide proper shielding. You can tell from its pleasant heft that this digital coaxial cable provides the right kind of shielding to ensure that your data makes it from your DVD player to your surround sound speakers.
Like all digital coaxial cables, Rocketfish cables are housed in a protective polyvinyl chloride jacket. When peeled back, you'll find a braided copper guard that shields the cable from electromagnetic interference. Copper is a great material because it is economical and highly conductive. Beneath the braided copper guard is a foil shield that deflects lower frequency interruptions to further preserve the audio signal as it passes through the cable.
At the heart of it all is a thick dielectric material that insulates the core wire from the exterior braided guard, which can contaminate the signal if the cable is bent or denatured. Like the braided guard, the actual wire is also made of highly conductive copper.
The connectors are excellent; the streamlined plastic casing complete with the Rocketfish insignia stamp is attractive to the eye. The plugs themselves are RCA style male-to-male terminals with 24K gold plating for corrosion resistance and high conductivity. They also feature a split center pin and a turbine grip to maximize contact pressure.
Poor selection in cable length is by far the biggest drawback to this digital coaxial cable. It only comes in two sizes: four and eight feet. The four-foot cable is perfect for wiring your DVD player to your receiver or amp, but you certainly will not be able to string the cable across the room.
Rocketfish provides an excellent lifetime warranty for all its digital coaxial cables, which is exactly what we expect from this kind of premium cable manufacturer. The company also provides a phone number and email for technical support.
The Rocketfish website features an interactive forum for questions and answers. If you have a specific question in mind, you can check to see if it has already been asked. If not, you can ask it yourself. Unfortunately, the section devoted to home audio does not include any FAQs dedicated specifically to digital coaxial cables.
Rocketfish digital coaxial cable is one of the best premium cable options available. The only drawback, as with many other digital coaxial cables, is the lack of longer length options. If that isn't a problem for you and you want a high-quality cable, Rocketfish is the perfect garnish for your home audio system.
