Originally Posted by Rolski
@Gianni
Thanks - that's a really good idea - and acceptable for demo / temporary purposes until the 861v8 hardware "catches-up". That is, of course, as you say, dependent on the DSP8000SE capabilities...
Now, time to find a reasonable USB-to-SPDIF converter !
It was explained quite a lot in the early announcements, that you need an 818 or other qualified item to decode/confirm the data. So I don't think USB/SPDIF converter into SE speaker has a hope in hell of working.

Sorry!


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