Hey Tex, I run my MD thru a Behringer Ultramatch to defeat the coding. No problemo. The only "B" piece I have, I take that back . I got a battery mixer of their's too, but I haven't given it a test drive yet.
Hmm, that's interesting. A friend of mine has a little sony with USB outs and they wont export on the USB, only import. I'll have to try the SPDIF through my Radar or something and see if it works.
Yea , I think I take the signal out of my DECK that has a lightpipe into the ultramatch, then SPDIF coax into my PC. I'm at work now and it's been a while since I looked at the hookup...
my current plan is to save up considerably more money and get a good preamp/converter like the Apogee Mini-Me and run the digital out into a Creative Nomad 3. I know, it's a comsumer product, but you can get it with a 40GB hard drive, which would serve my purposes exactly - low noise, high quality preamplification and conversion directly to a portable digital medium.