Monoprice Component & S/PDIF Digital Coax/Optical Toslink Audio to HDMI Converter does what it says. While it isn't without its quirks, it does work. Mostly.

The consumer digital audio format, commonly called S/PDIF (for the Sony/Philips Digital Interface Format), also uses coax cable. However the connector as well as the format is different from AES3id.

In the professional digital audio world, we have AES3-id, professional digital audio on coax. Then it would be common to carry multiple channels, so the high coax count cables might be just what you ...

In time, though, more digital audio formats popped up, many of which SPDIF didn't support. On top of that, Smart TVs with built-in content hubs became the norm.

The audio output stuff is all grouped toward the right side and the inputs are all toward the left side. Digital audio inputs (COAX and Optical SPDIF) are all on the extreme left.

Due to the age of my receiver, I need the new server to output digital audio via an S/PDIF coaxial cable (although an optical S/PDIF cable might be an acceptable second choice).

It’s not new, but it’s new to me: Hiby’s UC10 is a USB-S/PDIF converter for a smartphone or tablet (or PC/Mac). This tiny metal-housed dongle acts not as a DAC but as a DDC — a digital audio ...

Coaxial digital connection RCA-terminated coaxial cables Probably the least common connection when it comes to modern AV kit, coaxial digital uses electricity to transmit audio. The connector is a ...

Of course, you don’t have to know anything about any of that to simply use S/PDIF with the Teensy Audio Library.

HDMI technology has had ARC followed by the improved eARC for quite some time. We explain what this feature means and when you should use it.