28 Apr
2003
28 Apr
'03
11:15 a.m.
On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 02:27:49 +0200, Hartmut Noack wrote:
The Digital-Out of your CD-Rom Drive CAN be passed
directly to your
sounddevice - if you have a SPDF-jack on your soundcard or on your
mainboard when using the onboardchip.
The analogue audio-out of your CD-Rom cannot connected to such a Spdf
and the Spdf-out must not be connected to any sort of an input jack for
analogue-audio.
Also note that the flat 4pin CDROM style spdif connector is not
electrically compatible with the RCA/cinch SPDIF format as used by hifi
cdplayers and externally on soundcards, the data is the same (AFAIK), but
the voltages are different.
The cdrom spdif connector on soundcards looks like the one on the back of
the cdrom and will be inside the case.
- Steve