[ruZZ.il]

you sure its not an optical SPDIF? If so, check this out, i did it and it works great

you can try sticking a toothpick in and seeing if it turns a red diode inside on.. theres would be a little switch at the end if its the same as mine.

 

[krmathis]

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Originally Posted by zer061zer0 /img/forum/go_quote.gif Not sure if i can seek some help here, I have a laptop that uses one of the heaphone out, a 3.5mmsocket as the spdif out. I tried using a coax cable with a adaptor to a mono3.5mm plug to my LITE-AH DAC it dun work. tried a normal 3.5-3.5mm cable with a 3.5mm-to-RCA jack adaptor, it don't work again. Can I know if this is correct and if there is any settings to take note of? I am using a HP tx1000 series laptop, running on vista, i change to the digital out setting but my headamp doesn't give any output at all. Did i use the wrong cable? or was my connection/settings wrong?

Your laptop most probably have a combined 3.5mm headphone out and optical S/PDIF. Just like other laptops out there, like my MacBook Pro.
Hence you need a suitable optical cable, instead of the coax one you use now.

 

[JML]

There's a very interesting test of HDMI and 75 ohm video cables at PC World - The Cable Game. It was done a couple of years ago. Not the cable type you're looking for, but given that the HDMI cable is doing something similar, you might find it useful to read over.

 

[zer061zer0]

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Originally Posted by krmathis /img/forum/go_quote.gif Your laptop most probably have a combined 3.5mm headphone out and optical S/PDIF. Just like other laptops out there, like my MacBook Pro. Hence you need a suitable optical cable, instead of the coax one you use now.

Sure i will try getting a 3.5mm plug to optical DAC cable.
Thanks.

 

[ruZZ.il]

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Originally Posted by zer061zer0 /img/forum/go_quote.gif Sure i will try getting a 3.5mm plug to optical DAC cable. Thanks.

Reposting this link for relevance. It works perfectly on my Macbook Pro

Free too, since I used the cable that I think came with my PS2.. or something.

edit: my TOSlink cable mod was a bit different, but that site basically tells you what needs to be done, switch wise.

 

[arjuna93]

Quote:

Originally Posted by krmathis /img/forum/go_quote.gif Your laptop most probably have a combined 3.5mm headphone out and optical S/PDIF. Just like other laptops out there, like my MacBook Pro. Hence you need a suitable optical cable, instead of the coax one you use now.

Sure i will try getting a 3.5mm plug to optical DAC cable.
Thanks.

WireWorld SuperNova and some older Audio-Technica ArtLink versions match the requirement.

 

[Signal2Noise]

^
14 years. Holy thread resurrection Batman!

 

[The Jester]

A digital cable does carry just ones and zeros,
an Spdif cable also carries a clock signal...

 

[arjuna93]

A digital cable does carry just ones and zeros,
an Spdif cable also carries a clock signal...

BTW I have seen BNC clock cables. Are these identical to coaxial or something differs?

 

[The Jester]

Should be the same, I’ve seen optical used for clock cables too ..