[mr56k]

I might have asked this already but dont remember. I have a SPDIF connection on my sound card. Is there a way I can go from that to a 1/8" mini connection for my headphones? Also would it sound any better since it would then be going from digital to analog vs straight 1/8 to 1/8 as it is now.

Thanks

 

[Oliver :)]

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Originally Posted by mr56k I might have asked this already but dont remember. I have a SPDIF connection on my sound card. Is there a way I can go from that to a 1/8" mini connection for my headphones? Also would it sound any better since it would then be going from digital to analog vs straight 1/8 to 1/8 as it is now.

Yes, you can hook your digital out (is it optical or coaxial?) up to a DAC with an analog 1/8" out. Yet you cannot connect an analog device such as a headphone directly to a digital out. You'll get digital static, if anything at all. Those 0s and 1s want to be converted back to waveforms first.

 

[ayt999]

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Originally Posted by Oliver Yet you cannot connect an analog device such as a headphone directly to a digital out.

well, not if the headphone is an ATH-D1000, or something similar.

 

[Oliver :)]

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Originally Posted by ayt999 well, not if the headphone is an ATH-D1000, or something similar.

Doesn't that one have USB?

 

[ayt999]

are you referring to the ATC-HA4USB and ATC-HA7USB? the ATH-D1000 has a mini-plug digital input and no USB input or analog inputs.

http://www.audio-technica.co.jp/prod...ath-d1000.html

 

[Oliver :)]

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Originally Posted by ayt999 the ATH-D1000 has a mini-plug digital input and no USB input or analog inputs. http://www.audio-technica.co.jp/prod...ath-d1000.html

Incredible! There still has to be a DAC inside, you know it