Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] question re: optical spdif/in cards
From: Steve Harris (S.W.Harris_AT_ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Jan 10 2003 - 18:34:00 EET
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 04:52:40 +0100, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:
> I've been looking at specs of the Hammerfall Light, it seems to feature
> more than one ADAT input port, which from the docs looks to be the same
> type of connector as optical spdif. I'm just not very sure from the docs
> if this will really work; ie if one Hamerfall Light can record two spdif
> signals simultaneously.
Phyically the same, but not the same data signal. However one of the
inputs can be configured to accept TOSLINK. There is also a coaxial RCA
style S/PDIF input, and you can get boxes to convert between coaxial and
optical S/PDIF for EUR 30 or so, so it is possible, but not ideal.
- Steve
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