AVI ADM9 connections to PC

[Struenseegade]

Hi

 

New to the forum so please forgive if this question has cropped up before. I am considering buying the AVI ADM9 active speakers to play my music through but am a little confused as to how it connects to my PC. My PC does not i believe have a optical output facility. Is there another option to make the connection? USB perhaps? Any advice/help most welcome.

 

Loz

 

[Audio_ELF]

Your best bet would be to look at Musical Fidelity's V-Link. Alternatively you could use a PCI sound card such as ESi Juli@. Other options exist but the V-Link is good value for money.

 

Eloise

 

[Struenseegade]

Hi

 

Thanks for the reply.

 

I have since noticed my laptop has an output socket marked SPDIF and seem to remember reading somewhere that a connection can be made from this to the 'optical in' socket on the ADM9T. Is this the case? I'm somewhat a novice with this so all help very much appreciated.

 

[darascal]

Your SPDIF output is most likely an optical output, in which case you'd use an optical (toslink) connector. If it is a coax output, I believe the adm may have a coax connector as well.

 

[Struenseegade]

Thanks

 

Will give that a go when get the speakers.