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What adapters are out that let you take advantage of the combo input/
output plugs that will take optical digital signals? I know Sony made one for their CD players that used this connector but ideally, I'd like to come from a spdif or toslink cable. Do those adapters exist? I haven't seen any Mac advertising of the capabilities of these connectors nor have I seen anything from the online stores you see in the back of computer magazines. |
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On Jul 14, 6:32*pm, Chris Hornbeck
wrote: On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:53:29 -0700 (PDT), wrote: What adapters are out that let you take advantage of the combo input/ output plugs that will take optical digital signals? I know Sony made one for their CD players that used this connector but ideally, I'd like to come from a spdif or toslink cable. Do those adapters exist? I haven't seen any Mac advertising of the capabilities of these connectors nor have I seen anything from the online stores you see in the back of computer magazines. Mac's that I've seen have a combi audio output jack, analog via stereo 3.5mm and digital via optical. MCM, among others, sells an optical cable that plugs into the Mac's jack on one end and into a conventional optical jack on the other. Will six feet reach ya? All good fortune, Chris Hornbeck Yea, I think 6 to 8 feet would reach. I'll have to look that company up. Thanks for the info. |
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On Jul 14, 7:21*pm, wrote:
On Jul 14, 6:32*pm, Chris Hornbeck wrote: On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:53:29 -0700 (PDT), wrote: What adapters are out that let you take advantage of the combo input/ output plugs that will take optical digital signals? I know Sony made one for their CD players that used this connector but ideally, I'd like to come from a spdif or toslink cable. Do those adapters exist? I haven't seen any Mac advertising of the capabilities of these connectors nor have I seen anything from the online stores you see in the back of computer magazines. Mac's that I've seen have a combi audio output jack, analog via stereo 3.5mm and digital via optical. MCM, among others, sells an optical cable that plugs into the Mac's jack on one end and into a conventional optical jack on the other. Will six feet reach ya? All good fortune, Chris Hornbeck Yea, I think 6 to 8 feet would reach. I'll have to look that company up. Thanks for the info. Actually found another item that does the same thing. http:// macaudiopro.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=47126 |
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"Chris Hornbeck" wrote in message ... (The analog (headphones) outputs were unacceptably noisy. Not ground loops, per se, but more like contaminated grounds.) All good fortune, Chris Hornbeck Took the front panel HP outs from a Mac the other night to run some down & dirty, quick audio from a short DVD presentation to the mixer line inputs.... couldn't hear anything that was nasty, but I had a constant -6dB of _something_ hanging on the inputs as long as the plug was in the Mac jack. DM |
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wrote:
What adapters are out that let you take advantage of the combo input/ output plugs that will take optical digital signals? I know Sony made one for their CD players that used this connector but ideally, I'd like to come from a spdif or toslink cable. Do those adapters exist? I haven't seen any Mac advertising of the capabilities of these connectors nor have I seen anything from the online stores you see in the back of computer magazines. I don't know who sells a premade cable (though I'd try Markertek), but I know that Digi-Key sells the Toslink cable, the regular Toslink connectors, and also the combo connectors the Apple uses. Making your own Toslink cables is not too hard. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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