DAT-heads Digest #290

Contents:
  Bogus Optical Cable (Jonathan)
  Re: SV-3800 > Mac  (Jeff Lester)
  optical adapter for Mac (David McGee)


From: Jonathan <kc7fys@yahoo.com>
Subject: Bogus Optical Cable
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:26:20 -0800 (PST)

"Mr. Bogus"
This cable is readily available at Ratshack with a small adapter on the
 end that flips up. The round one in my experience is for things like a
 JB3 or most minidisc players and stuff. The square one you will see on
 most Sony DAT home decks and home minidisc equipment. Let me know if
 you need help finding this cable and I'll send you one.
Jonathan Haynes
 "Once plants and animals were raised together on the same farm - which therefore neither produced unmanageable surpluses of manure, to be wasted and to pollute the water supply, nor depended on such quantities of commercial fertilizer. The genius of America farm experts is very well demonstrated here: they can take a solution and divide it neatly into two problems."  Wendell Berry





From: Jeff Lester <tdcrjeff@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: SV-3800 > Mac 
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:41:31 -0800 (PST)

> I need to connect my SV-3800 to a friend's Mac for a
> little project, but 
> have never worked with an optical connection before.
>  The optical out on the 
> SV-3800 are a little black square nub about 3/8" on
> a side, 

This is called a Toslink connector.

> while the 
> connection on the Mac is a jack-type hole about
> 3/16" across. 

An optical minijack.

> What sort of 
> optical cable and connectors do I need for this? 
> (beyond the words "optical 
> cable", I have no idea what the proper name is for
> the cable and / or 
> connectors)  Is a cable with the proper connectors
> on each end (or cable 
> plus whatever required adapter) readily available at
> (ugh) radio shack? 
> What sort of price range should I expect to pay for
> the needed item?

What you want is a Toslink to Toslink cable, and then
there are little adapters that plug on to convert to
optical minijack. This Radio Shack link would work:

http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2459820

There are certainly cheaper options, though. This page
from Sound Professionals has a variety of optical
digital cables with combinations of Toslink and mini
connectors and Toslink-to-mini adapters.

http://www.soundprofessionals.com/cgi-bin/gold/category/590/audio
 

More Toslink info here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toslink

It refers to the minijack/plug as Mini-Toslink, though
I've never heard it called that.

-Jeff Lester


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From: David McGee <keytohwy@mac.com>
Subject: optical adapter for Mac
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 08:53:43 -0500

It's important to note that the Mac towers (PowerMac and later, Mac  
Pro) have full size optical ports.  Other models have what looks like  
a traditional 1/8 analog jack, but it doubles as an optical jack.   
You'll need a mini Toslink adapter to connect it to a "regular"  
Toslink cable.

See:

http://www.cybergiftcenter.com/applications/search/itemdetails.asp?oid=21&sku=C333-260710&mpn=260-710

Hope that helps,
keytohwy


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