I agree with Bob it's probably a PC setup or hardware issue than the
connection type itself. You might be able to fix what you have but may
take some digging. Google for what ever hardware on your PC is driving
the TOSLINK with and the keyword ASIO (And/Or BITPERFECT).
If it's not clear or known
I don't have a transporter (wish I did!) so take this with a grain of
salt:
For PC listening (where I sit through most of most days) I had been
using my PC's SPDIF out to a receiver, with ralphy's excellent
squeezeslave.
Sounded pretty good through nearfield monitors.
Ralphy came out with an ASIO
Hello guys,
I plug my computer to the Transporter by using the Optical input, and I
am not 100% satisfied by the result. If I compare the sound I get with
the squeeze center through WIFI, the sound from the optical input is
less powerful, lower quality and there is bit of background noise (not
I use the coax s/pdif output from my computer to connect to the digital
input on the Transporter if I want to play computer sounds via the
Transporter. (In my case I only do this to play Wolfgang's Vault live
music because I can't play this directly via squeezebox).
I've tried both the toslink