connecting santa cruz digital output to a receiver...

[$pade]

I want to connect the digital output of my santa cruz to the coaxial input of my receiver. Does anybody know the name of the cable I need that at one end plugs into the mini jack of my sound card and at the other end plugs into the coaxial input of my receiver?

 

[Possum]

Basically, the Santa Cruz FAQ on the Turtle Beach FTP site says to use a minijack to 2 RCA adapter/wire, and connect the red RCA as the digital out. If you want to just try it, any RCA cable (using a single side) will probably work ok to transfer the digital signal from the minijack-to-RCA adapter to your receiver. But audiophiles would say you should use a "proper" digital cable instead.

 

[MrWhiteUK]

I have the SC connected to the coaxial on my receiver. What you need:

1 * Normal RCA lead (think only requirement for digital is it is 85ohms, most are fine)
1 * 3.5mm -> 2 RCA converter



SC --[ >------------------< Receiver

^ ^
converter rca cable


Take one end of the rca cable, plug both (red/white) plugs into the converter, plug the 3.5mm part of the converter into the SC

At the other end of the cable you will have 2 rca plugs, 1 is Dolby Dgital only stream and the other is the equivalent of a normal soundcard line out (ie it outputs everything) I use this one. The output from this cable is 48kHz pcm (same a CD data but at 48kHz)


Hope that helps.

 

[Goi]

Actually its 75ohm rather than 85ohm...