On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 21:30:26 +0000, Neven Sajko wrote: >> 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. 5 or more channels? If your intention should go into this direction: http://www.marquetteaudiolabs.com/product_spl_atmos51.html If so, don't waste your time ;). It failed!
