How do I turn ADAT optical into multiple SPDIF coax?

Posted by smac770 (A) on July 12, 2006 at 00:34:29

Hello,

I have a home theater with a pre/pro that has a 3xSPDIF multichannel digital input. I have a PC which I want to do home theater gaming with on the projector. But the sound card only has analog outputs for multichannel audio. So I need a 6 channel ADC.

It looks like the TacT ADC6 is the only "CE" product I can find targeted for my specific need, but it has a proprietary digital output format to lock its use to TacT's TCS product. Every other ADC product I can find is a "pro audio" product.

And looking at those, everyone of them has inadequate SPDIF outputs for the number of ADC channels built in. I have no idea why even have SPDIF output if you're not going to have enough. Instead, it seems to be all about this ADAT thing. Which I know the term a little since I have a friend that does all this synth/mixer stuff in his basement.

So other than something like getting three M-Audio Flying Cows, or three ART DPS II, or three Behringer SRC2496, which all make the solution quite expensive (although still at least only three digits), I ran across this Behringer ADA8000, which is less than $300.

But I've got to get that ADAT output turned into what my pre/pro will accept, three SPDIF connections (the cable I have has BNC actually, but phono or BNC will work). So how do I do that? I assume I'll need yet another box, but I can't find anything out there that seems to fit this task.

Thanks.

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Topic - How do I turn ADAT optical into multiple SPDIF coax? - smac770 00:34:29 07/12/06 (2)

You don't... - Top Jimmy 16:44:02 07/12/06 (1)

Re: Appears to be the case, not cheaply at least - smac770 01:04:13 07/13/06 (0)

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