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From: dar@telesoft.com (David Reisner)
Newsgroups: rec.audio,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Digital Audio Interface
Summary: it is AES/EBU
Keywords: AES/EBU
Message-ID: <579@telesoft.com>
Date: 30 Oct 89 20:09:23 GMT
References: <2551@radio.oakhill.UUCP>
Organization: David Reisner, Consulting
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In article <2551@radio.oakhill.UUCP>, charlie@oakhill.UUCP (Charlie Thompson) writes:
> I have a Magnavox CD player model CDB-460. 
> Yesterday I was scoping the digital output
> from the rear panel and noticed that it almost looks like AES/EBU
> format!
>  
> I also have an Aiwa Excella XD001 DAT recorder.  I noticed that
> the DAT's digital output looks suspiciously like AES/EBU.

The digital outputs from CD players and DAT decks ARE AES/EBU.  (Actually,
they're the Japanese version, which flips a couple of subchannel bits.)

Motorola (the original poster's company) may be coming out with a set of
"AES/EBU" chips.  They would be the first domestic supplier (a practical
consideration for US manufacturers).

-David
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