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SPDIF to USB converter???

Does anyone know of the existence of a digital signal adapter/converter from SPDIF (IN), preferably coax, toslink if need be, to USB (OUT)? Since I haven't found anything, I wonder if that is at all possible or would the signal have to go through multiple conversions to achieve this?

Thanks in advance and sorry if the question has been discussed before, I couldn't find it in the archives
karelfd

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Even if the UA-1D can convert in the spdif to usb direction (which I'm not 100% certain of, after looking at its somewhat ambiguous description), I still don't think it would work for Karel's purposes.

In the computer interface application it would work by acting as a "guest" or "slave" of the computer's usb "host" controller. But the usb port of a usb-compatible dac is designed to also act as a guest (again with a computer or computer-like device providing the host controller function). So by connecting this converter to a dac via usb, no host controller would be present and the link would not work.

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T-Bone, he wants to convert in the other direction, from spdif to usb.

Karel, I did some brief searching and couldn't find anything either. What is it that you want to accomplish? If your purpose is to get a spdif signal into a computer, perhaps you could add a sound card to the computer that has a spdif input.

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Hi Karel,

Unfortunately, the short answer appears to be "no." You'll find a couple of good explanations in this thread:

http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f46/spdif-usb-381903/

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