Doesn't matter anymore i got a different motherboard in the end anyway.

one with digital optical SPDIF out?

cuz you couldave gotten a converter box to convert COAX to fiberoptic:
http://www.national-tech.com/prodima...-converter.jpg

Originally Posted by Ayporos

one with digital optical SPDIF out?

cuz you couldave gotten a converter box to convert COAX to fiberoptic:
http://www.national-tech.com/prodima...-converter.jpg

Yeah i got a new board that has tos link optical out instead of just a coax digital out. My amp takes both but the board i was going to get just had coax out. My amps coax input is called a DAT input? It's an old amp & i was not sure if the DAT input would take coax from any source as DAT is some old digital tape format i think?

Originally Posted by Ayporos

REEEEEE-EDITTTT (yarrr)!:

OK, recap:

DAT: digital audio tape
conclusion: useless.

optical in: CD optical in.
conclussiuon: useless.

Looks like you won't be able to hook your pc up digitally to it.. or atleast not unless you can get your audio card to emulate being a digital audio tape player or a cd player.. also it'd have to be stereo, no surround.

You're better off just hooking the amp up via analog.

I can use the tos link optical in for stereo sound, I have plugged a soundcard into the optical in the past & it worked fine aswell as a dvd player for movies & a mini disc. As for the DAT input it has a slightly higher bitrate than CD even tho it's tape? apparently DAT tape is superior to CD & that's why they still use it in recording studios today.

The amps is actually 4 speaker surround sound? must be old.
I just wondered if the DAT input would work as the board I was originally after only had coax out with no tosh. Thanks for the responses by the way.