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Coax To Toslink (gehirneimer.de)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/budgetaudiophile

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Hi everyone, I recently bought a Wiim Ultra because it was the perfect device for my usecase. However I noticed that basically all BluRay players only have coax out and the Wiim doesn't have a coax input. Is it lossy to buy a cheap coax to toslink converter? In theory it should just convert the data 1 to 1 since both connections are digital ones, but I am not sure.

The reason I want this is because I am most certainly not paying hundreds of dollars to listen to CDs. I wanted to buy a "cheap" BluRay player for ~80€ and just use it to listen to CDs as well. As long as I bypass their DAC that should be fine imo. But I don't want my TV to be on for listening to CDs so thats why I want to use the digital output of it.

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[–] afk_strats 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I had the mirror opposite problem. Had two devices putting out toslink and an audio device with one coax and one toslink input. I bought a cheap converter and it's perfect because I can switch between my two inputs and keep my digital signal path. From what I remember, it can convert in either direction.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01N32C5GT?psc=1

Since the signal is never covered from digital to analog, it should be completely lossless.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah that sort of device was exactly what I was looking at

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Coax is actually better than toslink, it supports higher sample rates. Go for it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Well if my device doesn't have it I can't use it :D That is my problem right now as the Wiim Ultra doesn't have a coax input