When my LP12 was upgraded last week, I asked Chris my dealer to fit a Toslink cable to the Urika II, to facilitate recording (which is the stated purpose of the output in the Linn user documentation). The cable is working well; I plugged it into my Chord Mojo DAC/headphone amplifier to test it. Now all I need to do is find a suitable Toslink input to USB adapter or converter (that can handle 24 bit/192kHz) to record from the Urika II to VinylStudio on my Laptop PC. I have repeatedly searched the web for such a product, without success. Amazon seems to be spamming the whole web with irrelevancies.
The Linn team must have had some sort of connection in mind when they designed the Toslink output into the Urika II. So I contacted the Linn Helpline. The reply I received from Richard in Customer Support is as follows
"Unfortunately, we have limited staff working at Linn at the moment and the engineer that I would need to ask about your question is currently not in the factory, so I am unable to give you any suggestions to your question. However, there is a hifi forum website (HiFi WigWam) that has a section devoted towards Linn owners and you may wish to visit their site to see if there are any postings related to your topic or possibly post the question if none are listed – the link to the forum website can be found using the link below:
https://www.hifiwigwam.com/forum/forum/147-initial-linn-owners-welcome-to-wam-thread/https://www.hifiwigwam.com/xenforo/forum/147-initial-linn-owners-welcome-to-wam-thread/
If you are still unsuccessful obtaining any suggestions from this forum site, please let me know and I will forward your enquiry onto the appropriate person at Linn to look at when they return to work"
Now it would be unkind to have a pop at Richard, who was trying to be helpful in difficult circumstances, but the unintended irony of his response is all too apparent. So now I have to ask the question; has anyone used the Toslink output on the Urika II for recording purposes; if so, how did they do it and what success did they have?
I am of course aware of the alternative of using Songcorder (https://doomhammer.github.io/songcorder/). In fact, I have had some success with it, but it does have a tendency to glitch or drop out completely. If @DoomHammer has any news on whether and how he plans to develop it and/or make it more robust, that too would be most welcome.
David
The Linn team must have had some sort of connection in mind when they designed the Toslink output into the Urika II. So I contacted the Linn Helpline. The reply I received from Richard in Customer Support is as follows
"Unfortunately, we have limited staff working at Linn at the moment and the engineer that I would need to ask about your question is currently not in the factory, so I am unable to give you any suggestions to your question. However, there is a hifi forum website (HiFi WigWam) that has a section devoted towards Linn owners and you may wish to visit their site to see if there are any postings related to your topic or possibly post the question if none are listed – the link to the forum website can be found using the link below:
https://www.hifiwigwam.com/forum/forum/147-initial-linn-owners-welcome-to-wam-thread/https://www.hifiwigwam.com/xenforo/forum/147-initial-linn-owners-welcome-to-wam-thread/
If you are still unsuccessful obtaining any suggestions from this forum site, please let me know and I will forward your enquiry onto the appropriate person at Linn to look at when they return to work"
Now it would be unkind to have a pop at Richard, who was trying to be helpful in difficult circumstances, but the unintended irony of his response is all too apparent. So now I have to ask the question; has anyone used the Toslink output on the Urika II for recording purposes; if so, how did they do it and what success did they have?
I am of course aware of the alternative of using Songcorder (https://doomhammer.github.io/songcorder/). In fact, I have had some success with it, but it does have a tendency to glitch or drop out completely. If @DoomHammer has any news on whether and how he plans to develop it and/or make it more robust, that too would be most welcome.
David
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