[sdiy] Useful S/PDIF part? Toslink!

[john tuffen]

That reminds me, I'm still after a UK source for TORX178 Toslink 
receiver... my
A3000 is currently sans optical-input :(

Places like Digi-key stock them, but the handling charges/minimum delivery
charges mean that it's *much* too expensive from there :(

Any help gratefully received :)

john..

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Quoting Anthony Bisset <abisset at dspaudio.com>:

>
> more than you want to know about DIY spdif here:
>
> http://www.epanorama.net/documents/audio/spdif.html
>
> Also, someone in sweden had built a universal spdif converter circuit
> which had nice features.  His circuit documentation was DIY friendly.
> I can't find his address, if you care, try "universal spdif" or it's
> variations.
>
> -a
>
> On Sat, 17 Dec 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Johannes Öberg wrote:
>
>> The local part supplier is selling out these babies cheaply (about $7), and
>> I'm already placing an order for other stuff:
>>
>> http://www.elfa.se/elfa-bin/setpage.pl?http://www.elfa.se/elfa-bin/dyndok.pl?dok=220856.htm
>> (datasheet for CS 8402 at http://www.elfa.se/pdf/73/738/07384027.pdf)
>>
>> It's a DIP24 serial in -> S/PDIF out ic. Since I am crazy enough to love the
>> SoundBlaster OPL3 FM sound, I've been wanting to add an S/PDIF out to get
>> rid of noise and easy integration into the studio. Also "have a plan"
>> (dreaming) of adding S/PDIF to my EPS16+. (yep, can be bought, but hard to
>> find an expensive). And it's always nice with S/PDIF right? :-)
>>
>> Would this part be useful and suitable for these types of things? To me it
>> looks like it would only be a matter of this chip + some passive stuff and
>> opamp buffering to get S/PDIF out of anything. This sounds too good to be
>> true, so I figured I'd ask before stocking up. Am I correct in assuming
>> similiar chips will be hard to come by in the future, with all the ROHS
>> craziness and stuff?
>>
>> /J
>>
>
>