[Beagle]

My ROTEL CD player has a coaxal digital out, my MD recorder is optical line in. Is there some kind of adaptor available that has a coax in and optical out so I can record direct to MD recorder instead of using analog IC? Does Radio Shack have one? If so, anyone have a cat. #?

Thanks!

 

[Dusty Chalk]

Actually, technically, that's a convertor. I know M-Audio make one. Not sure about Radio Shackle. You can also use something like a de-jitter device, they usually have some combination of both at one end or the other.

 

[skippy]

i don't know about commercial products, but it's pretty easy to make one. i took an rca cable, and attached a high intensity red LED from ratshack and a resistor in series. then i took the optical cable, and placed the plug next to the led and used a few layers of heat shrink tubing around both the led and the plug. this made a nice jack for the optical cable.

it should work, unless your cd player can not output enough current to the LED.

 

[thomas]

Ratshack #4208560 $49.95 (canadian)

I would try the LED skippy suggested first, there are plans on minidisc.org... Much cheaper, and should work just as well...

 

[Beagle]

Thanks guys!!

 

[andrzejpw]

hmm, does this work well?

 

[Clubkill]

Another option:

http://zzounds.com/love.music?p=p.TH...=1375263062916

$59.95

I will be able to write a mini-review of this in the next week or so (I will be testing it more at my school), but it seems to work well so far.

 

[Beagle]

Thanks clubkill, that looks like what I need. Coax into the CO2 and optical out to the MD deck.

 

[Clubkill]

I am thinking of getting one for the same reason. I am going to use the one at my school a bit more next week if you want to hold off for mini-review. If you don't, my preliminary work with it has been free of trouble.

 

[Beagle]

Sure, I'll wait. Thanks.