Re: Digital Output Cable Question

"Jeff Wiseman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Arny Krueger wrote:
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>> "Jeff Wiseman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>>> WarpedFrets wrote:
>>>>
>>>> "Is it a guitar jack."
>>>>
>>>> No, it's an optical out...
>>>>
>>>> It's smaller then the round fiber optic chords that you would use
>>>> with a minisdisc recorder.
>>>>
>>>> It's a coaxial cable... or so it says.
>>>
>>>
>>> It is either an "optical out" or a "coaxial" out. It cannot be
>>> both and these two items are very different beasts. If it is a
>>> coaxial cable connector of some sort, then forget the optical
>>> cable--it cannot be used.
>>
>> Ironically, that's not exactly true. Many portable digital recorders
>> and players use a jack that accepts both standard 1/8" stereo
>> headphone type plugs for analog and an digital optical connector
>> that looks like a plastic headphone plug with an extended tip.
>
> Interesting. So it's the same jack on the unit that can have
> either a stereo headphone plug or a special digital optic plugged
> into it?

Right.  I have one on my Nomad Jukebox 3, along with the matching cables.
Also seen on portable minidisc recorders.