SPDIF

[tennisplayer01]

Hi everyone I am having trouble turning on the SPDIF port on my asus motherboard it says its on and its working

i have 2 toslink connectors to 3.5 mm female so I can plug my sennheisers into it

both adapters don't work so i highly doubt its the adapter

when i go into windows configuration i check that it will say SPDIF and when i click it as default so sound it will come out.

nothing works please help

 

[rexter]

Make sure you download and/or install the proper driver. Windows 7 64bit might be difficult to find on older motherboards.

 

[tennisplayer01]

Yes it is the p8p67 came out this year earlier

already considered old? I have updated drivers

 

[erly_Cuylers]

am I to understand correctly, you are trying to connect the headphones directly with the toslink? because that will not work.

 

[tennisplayer01]

Yes beacuse it has a 3.5 female to toslink

How do I get my hd650 Sennheisers to work wiht on board sound than?

 

[rexter]

Now I got what erly_Cuylers trying to point out.

tennisplayer01, I was under the impression you are trying to connect an amplifier to your motherboard’s SPDIF, and then connect your headphone to the amp. But it won’t work if you are trying to connect your headphone to the combined TRS and optical socket on your motherboard. The socket my look like the one your headphone have but the signal that comes out of it is (red light) digital if you sellect SPDIF on the setting. Your headphone needs an analog signal.

 

[tennisplayer01]

Oh! Than I need to buy a soundcard that supports 1/4 inch adapters. Any suggestions for the hd650 sennheisers?

 

[rexter]

That is a good headphone, so you might want to cosider getting one of the unit in these links.
http/www.musiciansfriend.com/headphone-amplifiers

or like one of below.

http/www.musiciansfriend.com/audio-interfaces#fT=&gP=1&pS=60&v=g&sB=bS&lP=c&catId=site1YBK

Isn't that's the reason why you got that headphone?

 

[tennisplayer01]

Thanks so much for your concerns i got my budget out to finally add an asus xonar essence STX into it

 

[tennisplayer01]

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