Does anyone here know if all preamps with coaxial digital inputs
support s/pdif? I would like to save money and buy an older preamp
with at least one digital input, but I'm not sure if I can connect
every preamp to my computer spdif, coaxial output. How many standards
are there for digital audio inputs in the last 15 years?

I will be connecting the preamp to a Carver A-500x amp. I'm also
interested in any other low cost options for connecting my Carver amp
to the spdif output on my computer.

thanks,
Jeff

Jeff wrote:
Does anyone here know if all preamps with coaxial digital inputs
support s/pdif?

Why would a preamp have a coaxial digital input?

I would like to save money and buy an older preamp
with at least one digital input, but I'm not sure if I can connect
every preamp to my computer spdif, coaxial output. How many standards
are there for digital audio inputs in the last 15 years?

A bunch of them, but most things you see on a BNC or RCA will be S-PDIF
or some variant. But what's the point in having a preamp with a digital
input?

I will be connecting the preamp to a Carver A-500x amp. I'm also
interested in any other low cost options for connecting my Carver amp
to the spdif output on my computer.

I would suggest using an D/A converter for that. Plenty of good ones
out there. You can probably find a used Audio Alchemy for cheap.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

"Scott Dorsey" wrote in message

Jeff wrote:
Does anyone here know if all preamps with coaxial digital inputs
support s/pdif?

Why would a preamp have a coaxial digital input?

If its really a surround processor. Some of them look a lot like audiophile
preamps.

In Article , Jeff
wrote:
Does anyone here know if all preamps with coaxial digital inputs
support s/pdif? I would like to save money and buy an older preamp
with at least one digital input, but I'm not sure if I can connect
every preamp to my computer spdif, coaxial output. How many standards
are there for digital audio inputs in the last 15 years?

I will be connecting the preamp to a Carver A-500x amp. I'm also
interested in any other low cost options for connecting my Carver amp
to the spdif output on my computer.

thanks,
Jeff

To use a preamp with an s/pdif input, you'd need a mic with an s/pdif
output. I only know of two mics with digital outputs at the moment, neumann
and beyer. I believe they are both aes/ebu.

I don't know of any preamps with s/pdif inputs. Which "all" are you
referring to?

Regards,

Ty Ford

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click on http://www.jagunet.com/~tford

On Fri, 8 Aug 03 12:22:37 GMT, (Ty Ford) wrote:

In Article , Jeff
wrote:
I will be connecting the preamp to a Carver A-500x amp. I'm also
interested in any other low cost options for connecting my Carver amp
to the spdif output on my computer.

To use a preamp with an s/pdif input, you'd need a mic with an s/pdif
output. I only know of two mics with digital outputs at the moment, neumann
and beyer. I believe they are both aes/ebu.

Read again. He is using the s/pdif output of his PC soundcard, not a
mic.

I don't know of any preamps with s/pdif inputs. Which "all" are you
referring to?

Any of the current a/v pre/pros. Of course, he is talking about
consumer stuff.

Kal

In article writes:

I don't know of any preamps with s/pdif inputs. Which "all" are you
referring to?

All the ones with S/PDIF outputs, of course. We knew that.


--
I'm really Mike Rivers - )

On 8 Aug 2003 13:32:29 -0400, (Mike Rivers) wrote:


In article writes:

Read again. He is using the s/pdif output of his PC soundcard, not a
mic.

In that case why does he need a preamp? Is he talking about some other
preamp than a mic preamp? Like maybe a "home stereo living room"
preamp that's really a control center with (usually, formerly anyway)
an RIAA equalized phono cartridge preamp?

Could be.

Kal