On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 02:27:49 +0200, Hartmut Noack wrote: > The Digital-Out of your CD-Rom Drive CAN be passed directly to your > sounddevice - if you have a SPDF-jack on your soundcard or on your > mainboard when using the onboardchip. > The analogue audio-out of your CD-Rom cannot connected to such a Spdf > and the Spdf-out must not be connected to any sort of an input jack for > analogue-audio. Also note that the flat 4pin CDROM style spdif connector is not electrically compatible with the RCA/cinch SPDIF format as used by hifi cdplayers and externally on soundcards, the data is the same (AFAIK), but the voltages are different. The cdrom spdif connector on soundcards looks like the one on the back of the cdrom and will be inside the case. - Steve
