digital audio switch

[CU]

My old HTIB's DVD player is dieing. The tray won't stay open. It just opens and then closes right back. I am OK, for now, with the sound it puts out, so I would rather not replace it right now. However it only has one digital input. If I get a blu-ray player to replace the DVD playing aspect of it I need another digital input. Do they make optical or coax switches that automatically switchs to the one that currently has sound on it or that are remote controlled, ie. I don't want to manually have to switch it? Also what would happen if I just run two digital coax signals into a reverse splitter with 2 in and 1 out? Would it work? Seems like it would, but it is way to simple and cheap to work.

 

[nsafreak]

Wasn't able to find any that would do it automatically but I found one that is remote controlled. It has component video as well but you could just simply only use the coaxial audio portion of it, http://www.monoprice.com/products/p...=10112&cs_id=1011201&p_id=3027&seq=1&format=2

 

[CU]

Well I replaced DVD playing part with a BDX-2500. So know I need to replace it for a new receiver or just covert everything to coaxial audio and buy this switch. But, can anyone find an optical audio switch? Might be cheaper just to use an optical switch then convert one optical to coaxial than to convert each optical to coaxial then use a coaxial switch.

 

[CU]

http://www.monoprice.com/products/p...=10423&cs_id=1042302&p_id=2946&seq=1&format=2

Looks like the cheapest route for me. I can feed it some optical cables and use the converter I already have to convert the output optical to coax. If anyone knows how to take 2 may soon be 3 (depending on HTPC build) optical cables and output one coax for <$50 let me know. Any higher than that and I should just get a new receiver like a Onkyo 308 or something.

 

[JAG87]

I don't understand, how many digital inputs do you need, and how many does your receiver have counting both toslink and coax?

 

[CU]

I need 2 (TV and Blu-ray) maybe 3 (depends on HTPC) toslink inputs converted to 1 coax, as that is all my old HTIB has. I all ready have one toslink to coax convert that I use to run the TV toslink to my receiver. But now I don't have a way to send my Blu-ray 5.1 sound to my receiver.

Here is my receiver. Not the greatest put it works except for the DVD playing part. Tray won't stay out to put the disk in. http://www.crutchfield.com/S-FvQm29a...ures_and_specs

 

[JAG87]

I'd say it's time to acquire a new receiver.

 

[CU]

True thats why I don't plan to spend much on a switch. The receiver could die any day, as it is 10 years old. But even a cheap refurbished receiver like a Onkyo 308 is just shy of $200 and that would still be using my current speakers. Would just a receiver make much difference? I know I would get better blu-ray sound.

 

[JAG87]

You might as well buy one now. Things aren't going to change much in the future, we are already at 8ch PCM and 96Khz... Something that fits your budget and has HDMI and supports TrueHD and DTSMA.

Just a side note I want to give you without going too much into detail about models: in receivers, sound quality has pretty much a linear relationship with cost up to about $1K, becomes less evident between 1K and 3K, and is almost imperceptible above 3K unless you have very high end loud speakers. With that said, buy whatever fits your budget, but don't expect burr browns or toroidal transformers inside a sub 1K receiver.

Then start saving for new speakers, no offense but those need to be replaced badly...