Re: [Alsa-user] OT: Recommendations for sound recording with SPDIF

2006-06-08 Thread Gordon McLellan
Greetings, If you can find one you like with a coaxial sp/dif input (or even just a sp/dif in header), it is a small matter to convert optical to coaxial. If you're handy with soldering, you basically need a photo transistor (toslink receiver) and a few other components ... or if you prefer a

Re: [Alsa-user] OT: Recommendations for sound recording with SPDIF

2006-06-08 Thread Avuton Olrich
On 6/8/06, Gordon McLellan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, If you can find one you like with a coaxial sp/dif input (or even just a sp/dif in header), it is a small matter to convert optical to coaxial. Whoa! I didn't even realize that existed. Found one at

Re: [Alsa-user] OT: Recommendations for sound recording with SPDIF

2006-06-08 Thread Peter Zubaj
Hi, I am not sure, but AFAIK Optical and coaxial input has one shared input to DSP and I am not sure, if they are independent. Peter Zubaj On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 11:05 -0700, Avuton Olrich wrote: On 6/8/06, Gordon McLellan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, If you can find one you like

Re: [Alsa-user] OT: Recommendations for sound recording with SPDIF

2006-06-08 Thread Gordon McLellan
I'm pretty sure you won't be able to do that.. for cards that have both options, they just have a Toslink to Coax converter built on the card, and feed the coax signal into the dsp. you could probably have both sources connected, but not actually use them at the same time. Gordon On 6/8/06,

[Alsa-user] OT: Recommendations for sound recording with SPDIF

2006-06-07 Thread Avuton Olrich
Hello, I'm soon to be needing a sound card for recording (24/7) with optical SPDIF. I already have one doing the job, an Audigy2 Platinum, which I could get another one, but I'm looking to see if there's a cheaper alternative, maybe even something that doesn't require a 5 1/4 slot, that would