- Connecting audio
- Audio PC
- Raspberry & Co
- All in Ones
- Bluetooth
- Chromecast
- Streaming audio player
- Music server
- USB Audio
- Real-time audio over IP
- FireWire DAC
- Multi-channel DAC
- NAS
- Remote control
- Vinyl rippers
- Acoustic materials
- Active crossover
- Active speakers
- Single driver speakers
- Invisible speakers
- Sound card
- Digital room correction
- Headphone
- Portable media players
Digital
A lot of audio equipment has a digital input (optical or coax).
You won’t find many computers with a digital out (SPDIF).
Sometimes the headphone out doubles as an optical out (Toslink)
Apple, Toshiba, Asus and multimedia models of various brands offers this type of output.
If the PC doesn't have SPDIF this might a matter of not having a receptacle.
Often there is SPDIF out on the motherboard.
If you don't mind a bit of DIY you can make your own SPDIF out.
http://forum.videohelp.com/threads/333711-S-PDIF-connectors-and-making-your-own-MB-S-PDIF-connector
or get yourself a SPDIF bracket
Every PC has USB but most audio equipment doesn’t’ have a USB input.
Slowly but surely the audio world recognize the impact of computer based audio and starts to produce audio equipment with a USB input.
In practice you have two major options to connect your computer digitally to your audio:
- a sound card with a digital out
- an external DAC with USB input