Topic: SPDIF???? (newbie question)

[Napo]

SPDIF is often mention in postingsbut I do not really understant what it means.

Is it an an input or output or both (totally confused  )?
What is its advantages?

Mauro
from Italy

[modmike]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S/PDIF
http://www.tech-faq.com/spdif.html
http://www.epanorama.net/documents/audio/spdif.html

[Napo]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S/PDIF
http://www.tech-faq.com/spdif.html
http://www.epanorama.net/documents/audio/spdif.html

modmike,

WOW! I did not know that wikipedia had such tehcnical entries.
T+ for the other entry as well.

Best,
Mauro

[burris]

For tapers, the advantage of a digital input is you can bypass the possibly lower quality analog front end of a recorder and feed it high quality sound from another device.  i.e. use a cheap handheld just to write numbers to flash from an expensive mic-amp/ADC.