Location: Chelmsford, Essex
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I'm Gareth.
Location: Nr Coventry
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I'm Ian.
I don't think that you can do what you are trying to do as the signal is different for S/PDIF for coax and AES. It isn't as simple as matching impedance like it is with analogue signals.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/S/PDIF
Location: Chelmsford, Essex
Posts: 433
I'm Gareth.
I believe you're right. Info I was able find online suggested it might be possible, but not in my case.
Location: Bacup
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I'm Andrew.
This article sheds some more light onto the subject . http://www.rane.com/note149.html
I might be a bit thick here but I use a digital cable acoustic zen with rca to aes from the co-axial output to the aes input on my dac . sounds just fine
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Eric Bibb
Location: Bacup
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I'm Andrew.
About half way through the article there is a heading 'Conversion Caution' that seems to deal with the issue. Of course they may be wrong. I am interested because it would solve a lack of inputs problem with my DAC.