2 analog to digital converters?

Question

I m looking to see if 2 analog to digital converters would work when connected together? If I had 1 for my hdtv and another for a stereo receiver, would they conncect together with an optical audio cord and still work? No latency either?

Answer 1

There would be absolutely no purpose in "connecting together" digital decoders. once a signal is decoded to analog its decoded to analog, and needs not and cannot, be decoded serially. the same goes for the inverse, encoding (turning) an analog signal to a digital stream. if you have several devices that need to be encoded or decoded to match some device, there are switch boxes that will allow you to switch anything plugged into it (some up to eight devices) to the same encode/decode device then on to its destination. or you can manage the task manually by swapping out the wires to the coder by hand, of course. Common sense points out that buying a separate coder for each device would still require you to buy such a switch, unless the terminal device had say, a half dozen input ports or plug ins on it, so I cant imagine what it is you are asking or trying to accomplish. DACS and AD converters aren't exactly dirt cheap, and only the more expensive sort work even tolerably well. Buy compatible equipment and stay away from urinating money away on a spaghetti tangle of expensive, temporary add on black boxes is wisest.

Answer 2

You have a problem, have come up with a strange solution and only asking us about a part.



This makes it very difficult to understand what you are doing and answer your question.



LET ME GUESS:



* You have a 5.1 HDTV which has optical output

* You have an old stereo 2.0 and want to run sound from the TV to the stereo



Is this your real problem?



First: does your HDTV have in the audio setup menu the ability to output PCM or Stereo via the optical? If not - you cannot do this.



If your TV has this option - then this "Digital to Analog" converter is what you need:



http://www.amazon.com/Blusmart-Digital-Converter-Splitter-Blu-ray%C2%A0DVD/dp/B00V7TWNDU/ref=sr_1_6?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1453133238&sr=1-6&keywords=digital+optical+to+analog+audio+converter

Answer 3

It might be possible to get it to work how ever the sound quality would probably suffer any time you do conversion there is some degradation of the sound quality so your sound quality is never going to be better than what you start with that's the best you can expect and most likely it will be somewhat worse...how much worse depends on the quality of the converter box involved...also there will be some latency how much again depends on what box how it was designed etc...not all conversion boxes are equal some are better than others.....