Hi everyone, I recently bought a Wiim Ultra because it was the perfect device for my usecase. However I noticed that basically all BluRay players only have coax out and the Wiim doesn’t have a coax input. Is it lossy to buy a cheap coax to toslink converter? In theory it should just convert the data 1 to 1 since both connections are digital ones, but I am not sure.
The reason I want this is because I am most certainly not paying hundreds of dollars to listen to CDs. I wanted to buy a “cheap” BluRay player for ~80€ and just use it to listen to CDs as well. As long as I bypass their DAC that should be fine imo. But I don’t want my TV to be on for listening to CDs so thats why I want to use the digital output of it.
Coax is actually better than toslink, it supports higher sample rates. Go for it.
Well if my device doesn’t have it I can’t use it :D That is my problem right now as the Wiim Ultra doesn’t have a coax input
I had the mirror opposite problem. Had two devices putting out toslink and an audio device with one coax and one toslink input. I bought a cheap converter and it’s perfect because I can switch between my two inputs and keep my digital signal path. From what I remember, it can convert in either direction.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01N32C5GT?psc=1
Since the signal is never covered from digital to analog, it should be completely lossless.
Yeah that sort of device was exactly what I was looking at
