Question for multiple Aardvark 2496 owners

[whattaguy]

I just purchased my second one, and had a question about connecting the two together. Am I going to need 2 digital coax cables to link them together?

Is this:

http://www.circuitcity.com/detail.jsp?c=1&b=g&catoid=-8748&qp=0&oid=58767

going to do the same thing as this:

http://www.circuitcity.com/detail.jsp?c=1&b=g&catoid=-8748&qp=0&oid=8407

with just a difference in quality?

I got a Circuit City gift certificate from my birthday, and this is how I'm going to spend it. Thanks.

 

[laptoppop]

I have two and they work great together. The biggest problem I had is that there is no easy way to hook them up to combine their outputs without taking a few channels.

You need to hook the spdif's together for clocking signals -- any reasonable cable will do fine. Put the first card's clock on internal and the 2nd one on spdif. I think you only need one cable -- output from first card to input on 2nd card, but I hooked up two cables so I don't have to worry about which card is number one and which is number two.

I ended up getting a Samson C-Control to combine the output of the two units. (about $100.) It worked out well for me.

I also ended up getting a dual rack mount plate from 8thstreet.com for about $50. that let me put both of them in the rack cleanly.

I like the sound, and I like the built in effects quite a lot.

-lee-

 

[whattaguy]

So there's no way to monitor both out of one breakout box? That stinks. Well, at least I don't have to buy another s/pdif cable. :rollseyes: Well both are working fine. Thanks for the response.