Optical Digital Audio Splitter

[westyjeff]

I am considering a toslink splitter to run multiple dacs from my computer, has anyone had good or bad results from one of these?

This is what I am considering:

https://www.amazon.com/Optical-Digi...coding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=S21D842ZB0WR3C5FQ7T5

Thanks

 

[RayDunzl]

Looks fine to me.

 

[graz_lag]

The only issue you may - or may not face, is the bandwidth limited to 96kHz, although the item's description says up to 192kHz.

You can test it, that is rather 0-1: it works or it does't.

 

[Blumlein 88]

It might be fine or it might not. Below are some measurements I made of an HDMI switcher which among other things put out a Toslink optical signal. You might particularly look at the post #9. The clock for that apparently is really poor. It modulated and raised the noise floor, and increased jitter considerably even when connected to a good DAC.

https://www.audiosciencereview.com/...ewhd-prosumer-ultrahd-hdmi-3x1-switcher.1560/

Also post #25 in this thread.
https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/hdmi-to-optical-stereo.2051/post-55155

Now the device you are looking at may be just fine. But at that price things are constrained on quality. You would only know if someone measured it for you, but you might see something like the device I tested above.

 

[westyjeff]

Thanks for the reply's ! I ordered one and well see how it goes, I could lend it out for testing if anyone is interested.

 

[MkgandKembaFan]

Thanks for the reply's ! I ordered one and well see how it goes, I could lend it out for testing if anyone is interested.

Hey, I know this is a pretty old post, but what have you thought over the two years that you've had it?