Do I need anything special to connect the 3.5mm SPDIF output on my desktop to the digital coax port on my hifi? Can I just use a "good" coaxial cable terminated in RCA, and a RCA -> 3.5mm stereo ...

Monoprice Component & S/PDIF Digital Coax/Optical Toslink Audio to HDMI Converter does what it says. While it isn't without its quirks, it does work. Mostly. Monoprice has a singular reputation in the ...

The best-known ways to transmit a digital audio signal (S/PDIF) are to use a standard 75Ω coaxial cable or Toslink optical modules with matching optical cable. Naturally, it can happen that for ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. AES3id, the unbalanced physical form of the AES3 digital audio standard, is not the only type of ...

I have a Windows 7 machine with a digital coax out (Asus B85M-G). The RCA cable runs into a balun that runs through CAT5e through the walls, into another balun and into my receiver. It usually works ...

Last time we looked at the standards for the professional digital audio interface, AES3-2003 and SMPTE276M, as well as an AES information document, AES-3id-2001 (r2006). AES3 describes a balanced ...