Cable Question

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I have a sound card in old PC which I haven't used for 10 years.

It has an orange "digital out" which looks like a regular 3.5mm audio jack.

A set of speakers have has a SPDIF digital in.

Assuming these can be used together, what cable to I need?

 

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That needs so called Mini-Toslink cable:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOSLINK#Mini-TOSLINK

I should have clarified, the speaker port isn't optical, it's a digital coax cable connector.

I'm fairly sure I need a 3.5mm to digital coax. Is that a thing.

I can find one but it's no longer available on the popular website.

 

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Then it needs active signal converter device to convert optical signal to electrical signal
Googling for optical SPDIF Toslink to Coaxial bi-directional should find devices for doing that.

No of the connectors are optical

The sound card has 3.5mm jack labelled digital-out.

The speaks have digital coax socket labelled digital-in.

Would something like this work?

https://www.amazon.com/Micca-Premium-SPDIF-Digital-Coaxial/dp/B00V436UQU

 

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@Stretch, tell us the make and model of the card and somebody will tell you what you need. It sounds like the cable above will work but we dont know for sure until you tell us what it is at least.



They were just modules that plugged in to the spdif header on the card. If you dont need optical, then all you need a header, two wires and an rca socket

The card is a Sound Blaster Live 5.1.

I’ve previously used the speakers coax digital in but only with an onboard sound card with a coax digital out. The cable connects to the sub .

 

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Alternatively, could anyone recommend a cheap sound card that has a coax digital out. I’ve seen a few but they need two empty expansion bays and I only have one.