Need Help with an S/PDIF cable for UA25-EX to Focusrite VRM

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2011/05/01 14:04:13 (permalink)

Need Help with an S/PDIF cable for UA25-EX to Focusrite VRM

OK real new to this. So be kind.
I am using a Cakewalk UA-25EX.  I want to use the digital out which looks like a small flap with a 1/8 (I think ) optical female in it.  I want to connect this to a Focusrite VRM which has  a S/PDIF  that looks like a regular RCA female.  Anybody knowwhere I can get such a cable?  Please if you can supply a make and model number and what vendor to go to.

Anybody using this set-up or the VRM?

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    Re:Need Help with an S/PDIF cable for UA25-EX to Focusrite VRM 2011/05/01 14:37:42 (permalink)
    the square optical I/O on the UA-25EX is a TOSLINK and the "RCA looking" connector on the Focusrite is S/PDIF 75 Ohm Coax.  I do not think you can convert these formats with a cable adapter.

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    Re:Need Help with an S/PDIF cable for UA25-EX to Focusrite VRM 2011/05/01 20:34:28 (permalink)
    Right. One is light and the other is ones and zeros.

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    Re:Need Help with an S/PDIF cable for UA25-EX to Focusrite VRM 2011/05/01 21:22:46 (permalink)
    you probably can get some sort of converter box from optical to spdif... but using the VRM box with headphones, isn't a good quick fix for mastering or mixing IMHO as your mainstay , maybe for temporary e.g. travelling or just none acoustic place.. I'm assuming it exclusively uses headphones  from the review I read , can't replace decent monitors. maybe for comparing A<>B it's ok. In part due to the speaker dynamics vs headphone dynamics .. even with modelling , in the real world they can't be matched 100% for many reasons , freq. response being one and the size of the speaker cone etc.
    post edited by Fog - 2011/05/01 21:24:37
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    Re:Need Help with an S/PDIF cable for UA25-EX to Focusrite VRM 2011/05/04 16:34:40 (permalink)
    Thanks guys.  Yes I would need a toslink cable, a spdif cable (rca) and a converter box which would have run me another $100.  So I returned the VRM. Too much of a headache for me.  But I did like the idea of being able to compare the mix on different simulated speakers even if it was on headphones only.  I use KRK 8's for my monitoring so this would have been an additional check.
     
    Maybe in the next year or so it will be  plug-in wich would be great.

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