Audio Interface Optical Output
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Audio interface optical output. Put a 10 optical to analog converter between your optical audio out and your receiver and you re in business. It was playing half the audio and cutting out constantly. One aspect of audio interface design that often confuses the novice is the potential benefit of balanced i o. Much to my disappointment it sounded like absolute garbage.
Different usb didn t help. Connections between unbalanced outputs and inputs are made with single core plus screen cables that can pick up interference. Also known generically as optical audio its most common use is in consumer audio equipment via a digital optical socket where it carries a digital audio stream from components such as cd and dvd players dat recorders computers and modern video game consoles to an av receiver that can decode two channels of. A common use for the s pdif interface is to carry compressed digital audio for surround sound as defined by the standard iec 61937 this mode is used to connect the output of a dvd player or computer via optical or coax to a home theatre amplifying receiver that supports dolby digital or dts another common use is to carry two channels of uncompressed digital audio from a cd.
The tascam us 16 08 is an 8 channel audio interface aimed at being an affordable option for those wanting a rack mountable audio interface with a decent amount of inputs outputs. Your wireless headphones your old receiver your 1990s era whole house audio system or any other system that only accepts analog audio. If you are sending audio from your saffire or scarlett to another device you should first connect the s pdif output of the interface to the s pdif input of the external device using a coaxial s pdif cable such as a cd recorder. Some audio interfaces give you the ability to connect professional microphones instruments and other kinds of signals to a computer and output a variety of signals as well.
Typically your expansion unit provides the clock signal via its adat output so your main interface needs to sync to the incoming adat clock signal. To send audio to another external device. I figured i got a faulty one but thought i would try a few more things. The only caution with expanding via adat optical is that you need to sync the interfaces properly fig.
You can break the audio out of its digital cage and pipe it into any analog device you want. An audio interface is a piece of hardware that expands and improves the sonic capabilities of a computer. Toslink from toshiba link is a standardized optical fiber connector system. The unit is compatible with the majority of digital audio workstations that exist and can be used with mac and pc.