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#1 Analog to digital

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Locked as I am to the devialet phantoms in one room in Bedford Towers I found no analogue input so a stack of SACDs lay idle. I bought one of those tiny a2d converters from Hongkers on eBay for £7 Inc p&p.

Brilliant - it works at 48kHz I believe so 'better'than CD,not as good as SACD. Ineed it exposes poor recordings on CD a little too obviously (that digital signature perhaps) but so tiny dosh outlay it can also be remarkably good.
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Got a link?
 
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#3 Re: Analog to digital

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Moi
?! don't know how... but if you eBay search analog to digital converter you will get pages of digital to analogue converters. Every so often there will be what you are looking for. Silly prices!
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Did that, there's hundreds! :shock: Tried restricting price range to £7, nothing.
 
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That was then - this is now! Keep looking. :-----)
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I got a USB one which I use with my office system from computer - DAC. :)
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yeah but that is a DAC - common as muck!
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andrew Ivimey wrote:yeah but that is a DAC - common as muck!
Yeh,but----- ?

The new one in non oversampling mode is phoarrrrrrr. :D
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We is after Analogue to Digital (ADC)

Had a quick look at a couple which are optical output, the rest were DAC's actually
 
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My ADC is using the optical output. It also has erm, is it called SPDIF, you know digital using a phono like socket.

It was about a month ago and it was tedious sifting through the DACs when I had specifically searched for ADC, but then eBay searches are often like that when one is looking for something relatively obscure.
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OK sure I saw something like that yes. OK then!
 
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