I'm looking for way to connect my sansa e200 series mp3 to a home theather, can you help?

Question

I'm not talking about the those RCA cables either, I want to connect my mp3 digitially (though digital cables like optical and coaxial) I bought a digital system and I want digital sound. Through digital cables, the bass increase in huge in comparison to RCA. Much better quality, any help?

Answer 1

Unfortunately the sansa e200 has no digital audio output. It only has the standard analog outputs. There are expensive analog to digital converters you can buy, but since your source signal is still an analog signal it will not improve the quality in any way. You should totally be able to get the sound you want out of good analog cables. One of the reasons you might not be getting the greatest sound if because of the sansa's lack of a custom EQ. (equalization) Instead there are only the factory presets. Although I hear there will be downloadable updates soon for the sansa e200 to fix this, as its younger brother the e100 already has this feature and works great.

http://www.sandisk.com/Retail/DriverDownloads.aspx

Your best solution to take full advantage of your system is to buy a Cd player with an optical or digital output. There are several that are not that expensive. It is also possible that if you have a DVD player with your system that has a digital (audio) output you could use that, 99% of DVD players play audio CD's. The only other problem i can think of that would give you pour sound response is either miss-calibration of your audio system, or just low quality MP3's. The avarage MP3 quality, which is based on the encoded bitrate is only half of CD quality. For example a 128Kbps MP3 (the standard rate) has only about half of the audio signal of what the artist recorded in the studio. Your seriously only getting half the music! Anyway im sorry but there is no way for you to digitally output from your player, but there are ways to make it sound pretty damn good. If you have any other questions on how to make your system work better ask away. I have been an audio engineer for over 10 years.