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Sound Cards with Optical Output?

Posted by Cliff on from the does-this-exist? dept.

Scrambler asks: "I was looking around for a cheap sound card with optical output. I want it so I can record high quality MP3 music and recorded music/messages from my PC to my minidisc player. If anyone knows of a reasonalbly priced card would they please post it?"

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  1. Re:hoontech by dattaway · · Score: 2

    A cheap stand alone DAC? The DAC integrated circuits are easy to use and can be liberated from old equipment. They are easy to interface with just a data bus with a latch for the input and an output. With a few logic chips or a PAL, you could hook one up to the parallel port. We used to do these kind of experiments in lab and can be done from scratch in a few hours.