I use my DAT recorder for taping late night radio since I can get 5 hours recorded on one tape and it saves me waiting up until the small hours to record the program I want. I'd really like to make a digital transfer from the DAT to minidisc and I recently noticed the DAT has a 7 pin connector on the side. Naturally I started fiddling around! I chopped one end off an old RCA cable and prodded the 'live' wire into pin1 of the DAT. The other end of the RCA cable was already plugged into my MDS-JE520 deck and in record/pause from COAX. To my surprise the deck started recording there and then before I could plug in the earth of the COAX cable! I was surprised it didn't need the earth connected. Mind you this illustrates my lack of any real electronics understanding. Both units are mains connected, is this what's providing the earth? Sound quality seems excellent too. Secondly, having dug around on the web and found the pinouts I see the S/PDIF out from the DAT is 0-5v, not the +-0.5v that the JE520 is expecting. With a meter across the lead it seems it is indeed giving out about 4v. It seemed to work just fine for the 15 minutes I had it connected but before I do any long term recording can someone tell me if I'm going to be damaging the deck? John ----------------------------------------------------------------- To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
