Tech Forum

2020 Issue-1

SPDIF Input

I have some legacy recordings on DAT I’d like to re-edit as my skills have improved, but my DAT recorder has only a SPDIF digital output. My old XP box had this on the mother board, and all I needed was the back plate with the RCA jack and the cable to the pins on the board. Adobe Audition recognized it immediately.

Newer computers do not have SPDIF inputs. I would think converting the SPDIF serial stream to serial USB would be simple enough as far as circuitry goes, a lot simpler than an analog composite video (and S-video) plus audio to a USB device I can get for $30 with software. Perhaps a Windows 10 driver is is needed and is a challenge?

Every search only returns a flood of USB to SPDIF dongles, which is the wrong direction, and a few very expensive sound cards with many other unneeded functions. Is there a simple/inexpensive solution?

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Dennis L Green
Farmington Hills, MI

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