adat or s/pdif -- practical difference?

ewegogetemtiger · 26th November 2005

If given the choice to I/O using either adat or s/pdif (e.g. converter to card, etc) which is the better choice or does it make any difference in terms of performance?

thanks

nukmusic · 26th November 2005

bout the same for 2 channel, but spdif goes up to 96k, but adat have 8 channels at 48/44.1k

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