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SPDIF matching

I’ve ordered both solutions proposed. Hopefully one of them will work.

You all are amazingly audio-geeky – when I talked about matching SP/DIF to AES at Guitar Center and Petosa, all I got were blank stares… and whoever posted the solution, did so anonymously!

Thanks, whoever you were. I don’t know that either one will work, but they both look like likely canidates.

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One Response to “SPDIF matching”

  1. anonymous Says:
    August 21st, 2006 at 1:26 pm

    I have to post anonymously. I don’t have a Livejournal account.

    Remember that SPDIF might be using a 48KHz sample rate, BUT there are 2 channels and 16 bits per sample leading to a data rate of 1,536,000 bits per second or 1.536 megabits per second (not including any protocol overhead).

    Hopefully that puts it’s 3MHz bandwidth usage into perspective 🙂

    If you’re really bored, and you have a VHS VCR, do an experiment for me that I’ve wanted to do but don’t have the equipment to do (I have nothing that can receive SPDIF right now):

    Try recording SPDIF onto a videotape by recording it into the video input jack. Then try playing it back into something that can receive SPDIF. It may not work because of the head switching that takes place, but then again it might.

    I got the idea from a web page where the author described using a 2.4GHz wireless video transmitter/reciever pair to transmit SPDIF.

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