if you cant tell the difference between 320, 192 and uncompressed on the equipment you sell you are selling really bad equipment. you can hear the compression on a cheapbookshelf system if you listen.......

i wish i had your 98% of customers cuz mine know the difference.

do yourself a favor make a cd with same song at different bit rates...throw it in your car cd player.....you wil hear the difference

then take same cd and play it over a mid ine sound system.....

on a high end sound system you wont be able to stand how bad it sounds

I thought my two earlier threads gave plenty of details, apparently more words are not better for you.

Try finding the answer yourself!!! Go to Google, and try a search based on "spdif converter". I know you will get plenty of good solutions. Usually to learn something, you have to put in a bit of effort.

I didn't say 98% of people that buy custom installed audio! I'm sure you know, 99% of people don't have custom installed audio in their home. They have a receiver they bought at Walmart that came with surround sound speakers and a DVD/receiver combo and it costs $99. That is more the norm than custom installed audio.

I wasn't being lazy! I did google it and searched Radio Shack. Radio Shack doesn't have a converter. Googling returns mostly analog TO ooptical, not vice versa. A lot refer to 'TOSLINK" which I have no idea what that is. I know this is probably off-topic as this is not a custom installer question. Sorry.

Yeah, what is "TOSLINK" anyway????

A TOSlink cable allows your Toshiba Cinema series to connect to the internet so that it can be color corrected and ISF certified over the internet. Broadband service is required.

Look on the back of your DVD player. Youll see a little door with a red glow coming from behind it. Open that up and take a gander. Then insert your TOSlink cable there. Or your optical cable, whatever you want to call it.

A Toslink cable is a fiber optic cable that carries S/PDIF signal.
example: DVD to receiver or PC to DAC(Digital to Analogue Convertor)
I don't know if they are around anymore but the Entech Number Cruncher 203.2 was a nice and reasonably priced.

Thanks Carl! It all makes sense now! I always wondered how they justified the amount of money they charge for one of those Cinema sets.. ;)

The reason they cost so much, isn't the internet calibration. Its because 3 Portugese children are killed for every two sets that roll off the assemble line.

Does that also explain 3:2 pulldown?

I was under the impression that the 3:2 pulldown refered to a lowering ones pants during a 3 girl:2 Pillow scene on the Spice channel.

But your explanation makes a lot more sense, and I actually think your onto something there. We should start a company.

Someone whipe the soda off the monitor please... Depends if the 3:2 pulldown was in effect when it hit the screen.

And we all know Radio Shack is the "Go To" source for the latest and most sophisticated technology! (Do you sense a hint of sarcasm here?)


So by mostly you mean it does also return some optical to analog. In my experience, 1 correct solution is better than many bad ones.


Sounds like you need a basic digital audio explanation. You've mentioned multiple times that you don't know what TOSLINK is. I mentioned Google, with the idea that it would get you down the road of learning... you would try to answer a couple of your own questions. Apparently that is too vague for you. Now Google "TOSLINK". The highest rank hit will be a definition of what TOSLINK is. Was that real hard? Give us a bit of a break, you need to make a little effort here.

There has been one area of quality missing from this thread. That is how to best make the MP3 you can. There is more to good MP3 files than just the bit rate used. http://mp3.radified.com/ contains some very good information on creating quality MP3 and has links for addional information. It even discusses lossless compression too.

If your going to make MP3 files you might as well make a good ones.