> As a former audio engineer who worked for one of the two famous German > microphone companies, my intuitive thought is still to prefer S/PDIF > over USB. Perhaps I'm just a dino who missed that all gear nowadays is > equipped with USB. In my experiences a lot of consumer gear provides > S/PDIF, but not necessarily USB, so assumed you one day want to connect > your digital microphone to some other equipment (not to a computer), > there might be no USB port available, while S/PDIF usually is available. Actually, after reading the Wikipedia S/PDIF article it seems that S/PDIF does not have enough bandwidth for my purposes, since I am building a microphone array. Wikipedia implies that no more than 5 channels of PCM can sent over S/PDIF. Regards, Neven
