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On the subject of audio, does anyone know of a simple and cheap Toslink to USB input interface? My motherboard has the output but not the input and I really can't find an input device.
Due to my TV lacking a 3.5mm output (curse you Samsung) the audio from it currently goes through a Toslink to RCA converter, through a mini mixer to line-in on my PC. The optical converter is noisy, no matter how I power it there is always some background hum. It's also very quiet and seems to have fairly aggressive volume levelling, so it isn't much fun to use. I'd rather just feed the audio through my PC.
Some Sound Blaster cards have a SPDIF input but they're expensive and I don't really want an expansion card blocking the air flow into my RTX 3080. The Behringer DAC I'm using doesn't support optical, as far as I can tell none do. Any ideas?
Due to my TV lacking a 3.5mm output (curse you Samsung) the audio from it currently goes through a Toslink to RCA converter, through a mini mixer to line-in on my PC. The optical converter is noisy, no matter how I power it there is always some background hum. It's also very quiet and seems to have fairly aggressive volume levelling, so it isn't much fun to use. I'd rather just feed the audio through my PC.
Some Sound Blaster cards have a SPDIF input but they're expensive and I don't really want an expansion card blocking the air flow into my RTX 3080. The Behringer DAC I'm using doesn't support optical, as far as I can tell none do. Any ideas?