[myk7000]

Hi guys,

Honestly I may sound stupid for this but I am looking at purchasing a dac right now that has RCA and BNC digital inputs.

I also have a laptop that has SPDIF Digital Out via HP Dock (on my hp laptop).

For the longest time I have been using a USB DAC to feed into my headphone amp as a good source. However, I am looking into a DAC that does not have USB (Paradisea non +) and wanted to know if I can still feed it music from my computer.

I currently do have on hand a Blue Jeans RCA Male -> 1/8 plug adapter that I would think I could plug into my computer's SPDIF slot (one of the headphone slots) and the other side into the RCA input of the paradisea.

Does this logic work? Will I be able to hear music once that is fed into an amp?

So basically I'm wondering if this signal will be the same as if the dac had USB capabilities.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks

 

[Currawong]

Are you sure the SPDIF output isn't optical, not coax though? What exactly model of laptop is it?

 

[myk7000]

It is the HP HDX16T. I have a feeling it is not optical though.

 

[Currawong]

HP, being useless, doesn't have any useful information online about your laptop.

 

[fenk]

If the digital output is not in RCA type then it should not be coaxial.It won't work even if you use 3.5 to RCA-------because it should be optical

(or custom-defined interface but seems not possible)
As far as I know that the HP dock for notebook have a coaxial output.not familiar with your type but you'd better check the manual