Environment:

- ASUS p4b266, 2.0 ghz, with 1gb memory

Greetings,

Alot of audio interfaces come with 2 S/PDIF interfaces these days but for the life of me I have never heard of a practical application for them...

If you have an ADAT interface, which can get you 8 channels of I/O from your converters, what would you use S/PDIF with? Its only 2 stereo channels, so in terms of raw channels a second ADAT port would work better..

Could somebody point me in the direction of a good digital patchbay which primarily consists of S/PDIF connections since I'm not "professional". Also could someone tell me why one couldn't use a 1/4 inch patchbaby and just purchase 1/4 to rca adapters?

Since I bought the Tascam US-428 I have been eyeing that little yellow S/PDIF input. One of my synths (Motif 7) has S/PDIF out option should I choose to buy it. However, the synth also has 24 bit DACs, which sound great going into the 428.