Jeg sitter her med en boks som har S/PDIF ut, både Coax og Toslink. Er også lykkelig eier av en annen boks med S/PDIF inn, igjen både Coax og Toslink. Planen er da følgelig å sette en kabel mellom disse to bokser, men hvilken type skal en gå for ?
Noen har skrevet noe;
Noen har skrevet noe;
Noen som har fornuftige innspill til dette, akk så digitale, valget av kabeltype ?S/PDIF (IEC-958) uses 75 ohm coaxial cable and RCA connectors. 75 ohm coaxial cable is inexpensive, because it is the same cable as used in video transmission (you can buy a video cable with RCA connectors to connect you S/PDIF equipments together). Coaxial S/PDIF connections work typically at least to 10-15 meter distances with good 75 ohm coaxial cable.
There also an optical version of S/PDIF interface which is usually called Toslink, because uses Toslink optical components. The transmission media is 1 mm plastic fiber and the signals are trasmitted using visible light (red transmitting LED). The optical signals have exactly the same format as the electrical S/PDIF signals, they are just converted to light signals (light on/off). Because high light signal attenuation in the Toslink fiberoptic cable, the transmission distance available using this technique is less than 10 meters (with some equipments only few meters).