"UnsteadyKen" wrote in message
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David Looser said...

There is a little USB DAC from Maplin which looks to me to be very
similar
to the "Firestone" except that it only costs a fraction of the price.
I've
used the Maplin DAC for some time and have been very pleased with it.

Is it this one?
http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=34128

That's the one.

I've been looking at that as a cheap way of getting toslink output from
my laptop to a Minidisc, have you tried it in that mode?

I haven't tried to connect to a Minidisc, but I see no reason why it
shouldn't work. I've mainly used it to feed audio from a laptop to an
optical input of a Denon surround-sound amplifier. Though I've also used
with a stand-alone DAC and also succesfully fed the optical output into the
optical input of a sound-card on another PC as an experiment.

David.