4 digital outputs?

[twospeed]

can some one please help im looking for a sound card with 4 digi outs, any know of one?

[Jay Pace]

What do you mean by digi?

SPDIF?

Why do you want 4 digi outs?

Might be able to help more if I know what you need it for...

[twospeed]

to go into the didital inputs on the back of a pioneer 800 m8, the connection is a single rca. cheers

[rhythmtech]

you're looking for SPDIF as jay said

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPDIF

the only card i know of off hand is this
http://www.rme-audio.com/english/hdsp/hdsp9652.htm

but you're talking big bucks and it only has 3.

why exactly are you looking to use digital connections? the only real gain to be had (outside using it for sync) is noise shielding from mechanics such as cd motors.

[twospeed]

cheers 4 the advice fellas,i just want to use the coaxial inputs on my 800, i thought id try and find a card that did it now rather than upgrading again. its for a laptop too so im looking for firewire.

[twospeed]

i just found this one dont know what the quality of the product is like?

http://www.floridamusicco.com/proddetail~prod~herculesfw.htm

[Jay Pace]

Hercules have a pretty decent reputation. Sure it will be fine.

Still don't quite understand why you want digi outputs though, signal is going to get converted to analogue eventually, and by using analogue outs from a decent card you can regulate the quality of the converters.

Good as pioneer are, they DA converters aren't the finest...

[twospeed]

ah right, any suggestion on a soundcard m8?

[Jay Pace]

You don't need to spend that much tbh....

M-audio do "4 in 4 out" soundcards that work really well and are well priced.

Go higher up the scale and MOTU do great cards and units.