{"id":8693,"date":"2007-03-22T14:29:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-22T18:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/03\/22\/dac\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:35:12","slug":"dac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/03\/22\/dac\/","title":{"rendered":"DAC?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can any of you recommend a decent DAC for me? I want to convert <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/TOSLINK\">TOSLINK<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/S\/PDIF\">S\/PDIF<\/a> to something I can feed into my NAD receiver to drive a decent set of stereo speakers. It doesn&#8217;t have to be something great, but not crap either.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be using an external switch to select devices, so it only needs a single optical and coaxial input. I guess it could even just have a coaxial input and I could just get an optical to coax adapter.<\/p>\n<p>Even a schematic for a known-high-quality adapter would work, I could just build one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can any of you recommend a decent DAC for me? I want to convert TOSLINK and S\/PDIF to something I can feed into my NAD receiver to drive a decent set of stereo speakers. It doesn&#8217;t have to be something great, but not crap either. I&#8217;ll be using an external switch to select devices, so\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12937,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8693\/revisions\/12937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}