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Re: Outputting multichannel sound through the optical link??
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Re: Outputting multichannel sound through the optical link??


  • Subject: Re: Outputting multichannel sound through the optical link??
  • From: Paul Davis <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 18:11:29 -0500

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Kyle Sluder <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Ryan Walklin <email@hidden> wrote:
>> This is ideal, but does require a lot of new hardware. A TOSLINK optical connector is available on all shipping Macs.
>
> But it can't do what you want (uncompressed multichannel audio),

i never quite understood if there were h/w differences between a
TOSLINK connector being used to deliver ADAT-protocol or S/PDIF
protocol .... the former is 8 channels, uncompressed, via the same
connector and fiber ... i guess the signal codec must be different.
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