questions about S/PDIF

[Schadenfroh]

this port on the back of my a7n8x deluxe, the only way i can bypass the crappy realtek is to use this digital port correct? then i will be using the nvidia sound, right? is S/DiF the same as coaxial digital? i know its not optical. im looking for a reciever, will it plug into this thing?

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[drag]

s/pdif = coax digital.

You would have to use a mini plug to RCA plug adapter to make it work on a coax input for a regular receiver. Idealy you should fine a mono adapter, but I use a stereo "Y" splitter adapter and when I plug the left (white) side into the Coax input it works just fine.

The bad/good part is that this is still part of your sound card. If you have a crappy sound card it will still be crappy even through the digital line. If your lucky though maybe the part of the sound card that is causing the crappy sound isn't used in the digital line, but I wouldn't count on it.

If you want a better sound card you can get a Sound Blaster Audigy or a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz for fairly reasonable price and they sound great.

 

[Mday]

spdif is a digital audio communications specification. it is often implemented in coax (RCA) and optical (toslink). you can use it to output into a decoder to be decoded, assuming what is being sent to the decoder can be decoded by it.

 

[Blooz1]

Yep! Get yourself a coaxial cable and should just plug right into one of the inputs on a receiver.

 

[rbV5]

If your lucky though maybe the part of the sound card that is causing the crappy sound isn't used in the digital line, but I wouldn't count on it.

You probably can count on it. The ASUS Soundstorm digital output is considered excellent, >than Audigy and TBSC by most counts. Too bad the analog output(which I use) is held back by the crappy realtek codec.

 

[Schadenfroh]

ok, for one last time, coaxial digital is the exact same thing as the s/pdif connecter on the back of my asus a7n8x deluxe?

 

[arod]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
ok, for one last time, coaxial digital is the exact same thing as the s/pdif connecter on the back of my asus a7n8x deluxe?

Yes, I do this on my HTPc to send DD 5.1 to my receiver for DVD's