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Optical Splitter

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mastephens

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I was looking at the X-FI Platinum card, but I need more than one optical input. Is there any type of splitter that will give me good quality and is cheap? Thanks.
 
Radio shack sells a switched y splitter for optical but I will be damned if I can find it on their site.
 
Depending what you're doing with those optical inputs, I might suggest something other than the X-fi. If you want to record multiple sources from optical, there is no better card than the RME HDSP 9652, with 3 optical ADAT I/Os and one SPDIF. However, I'm not 100% sure that you can use the adats as spdifs.

If you want switching of multiple inputs->speakers, you might look into a receiver. I have no idea what to recommend in this regard, but I'm sure someone can help you out.

 
unhappy_mage said:
Depending what you're doing with those optical inputs, I might suggest something other than the X-fi. If you want to record multiple sources from optical, there is no better card than the RME HDSP 9652, with 3 optical ADAT I/Os and one SPDIF. However, I'm not 100% sure that you can use the adats as spdifs.
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WOW! Now thats what I call alot of fiber optics! Thats pretty good if you own all optical devices! I am hoping they make fiber optics into multichannel sound :)
 
ADAT is up to 8 channels at 48khz or 4 at 96k, they're one step ahead of you. But it's a professional standard, not a consumer one - I don't know of any dvd player that has adat outputs, for example. Another professional standard, AES, allows the same amount of data over XLR-type cables.

 
I use my reciever to do the same thing.. I run all my optical inputs through it.. and use the optical out (on my reciever) to my headphone amp... but I guess you could go into the x-fi inputs.
 
actually the radioshack near my house has the optical splitter on clearence, picked up one just in case i ever need it... call or go to your local radio shack and see if they have them there...

what i really needed was the optical>coax spdif converter they used to have but that was discontinued :rolleyes:
 
If anyone is wondering, Radio Shack has a fiber optic splitter that has 4 inputs and one output, vise versa for $19.99. It is rather large, but has good construction and a self-locking selector switch for the 4 input/outputs.
 
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