james of tucson wrote:
On 2005-01-05, Mike Rivers wrote:

works better than you'd expect if it's a well designed sound card.

Shirley this stuff is opto-isolated these days. That's not expensive
anymore.

That's phenomenally expensive compared with the costs these guys are
working with. For the most part, they are dealing with shaving fractions
of a cent off the cost of a board.

That's why TOSLINK optical stuff became popular... it's a lot cheaper than
properly isolating a copper wire so that it meets FCC Part 15 specs.
--scott
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