Coaxial to Optical - what should you use?

[teainthesahara]

I may need to convert a coxial signal (spdif) to optical (spidf). My question is, will any reasonably made convertor box do this, or do cheaper ones mess with the signal integrity?

For example, is this a piece of crap to stay away from?

http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=14968&item=5726374160&rd=1

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[Massive Master]

I would say it's *probably* just fine.

That being said... I'd probably suggest M-Audio's Co2 converter. If for no other reason, I have and have used several of them and never had the tiniest problem with any of them.

 

[steve350]

I agree and use them all the time. I have both the C02 and the C03.
http://www.music123.com/M-Audio-CO2-Optical-Bi-Directional-Converter-i28164.music

 

[teainthesahara]

Thanks guys.

Just from looking at the pictures, the m-audio seems to be of better build quality. Are the inner components for these tools nowadays pretty much standard/the same?

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[MOFO Pro]

You get what you pay for... so be careful...

It's an active device, so it's not just a pass through... the quality of the optical transmitter and lasor (LED) could be questionable on a low end converter. Now how much that would effect the quality of the audio... I'm not sure, but it's an extremely important link in your signal chain...