TOSLINK to Coax conversion
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Category: Digital Audio
Forum Name: CD, DVD Audio, DACs, ADCs and Digitizing
Forum Description: The existing (and obsolete?) digital formats
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Topic: TOSLINK to Coax conversion
Posted By: Humboldt
Subject: TOSLINK to Coax conversion
Date Posted: 03 Oct 2013 at 12:53pm
This is a very technical question, but I wonder if anybody knows if a cheap and simple Toslink to coax converter degrades the sound quality.
I am asking because there is a product on the market called Bluesound, which is a music streamer, and it only has Toslink digital output and my DAC has only Coax input. This product has suddenly become interesting because it also stream music from services like Spotify and Wimp. The later recently started to stream uncompressed FLAC format.
I have never listend to a BBluesound device, but I have a SONOS. The sound from a SONOS is not very good, even if just streaming to an external DAC. I guess it has to do with severe jitter problems. Anybody who knows anything about the sound of these Bluesound devices?
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Posted By: Graham Slee
Date Posted: 03 Oct 2013 at 1:25pm
Hey! How many will want that? I have just the right circuit!
It may take me a bit longer to make such a thing though.
But it's very low jitter, and does 24/96!
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Posted By: Humboldt
Date Posted: 03 Oct 2013 at 2:38pm
Well, I would be interested.
I just read Wimp is not available in England. Outside the Scandinavian countries, it is only available in Germany and Poland.
http://wimpmusic.com/wweb/index/
http://magazine.wimp.no/2013/09/wimp-hifi-lossless-music-streaming/
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