Simon Gardner wrote:
> I think another major factor may be to keep things straightforward. On a
> portable, where all the jacks are 3.5mm, it makes sense to keep the digital
> input as different as possible from the analogue.
>
> Thus people remember:
>
> Thin cables with red light light at the end = digital
> Metal jack plug with thick cable = analogue
>
> If you were doing electrical SP/DIF on a 3.5mm jack, imagine the potential
> confusion :)
As it is, a couple of times I made a mistake and plugged a mike into the
optical input on my R30 and was real disappointed after recording for an hour
to find that I had 20 blank tracks. :(
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