Thread: shoping for a DSP/SSP to put in my car.

Are you sure that the TOSLINK is only for the panasonic DVD player. Why wouldn't it accept another Optical Digital Input.... for instance optical digital from a carpc (after a coax-->optical conversion)? I just bought one if these suckers and am about to pay for it tomorrow. If it doesn't accept any optical digital input then i will back out on the deal. DAMN I thought i found the right processor finally.

I think that There is a clarion unit that will do this. What you are looking for is any DSP with proLogic / proLogicII. As I understand it that is what does the upmixing for an analog source. THere is also an Alpine Unit PXA-H510 and PXA-H700 but they are both expensive and the 510 doesnt do the upmixing. Good luck on the under 500 bucks part.

Digital Inputs
A digital audio-in (optical) as well as analog audio-in (RCA x 2) are available for a variety of audio connections.

This was quoted from their website. I don't see anything that says that the toslink is specifically for the panasonic DVD play ONLY. WHere did you get that idea?

Edit:I have contacted cutomer support on this and will report what i find. I doubt my email will be promtly responded though so a call may need to be in order tomorrow moring. So far i have seen nothing to indicate that it wont accept any TOSLINK capable device

I don't see anything that says that the toslink is specifically for the panasonic DVD play ONLY. WHere did you get that idea?

I got that idea from a review,
Some one bought it trying to use it with a toslink dvd player and found out it only works with a few panasonic dvd players(thare is a list someware, I will try and find it again)

If you have a computer in your car you want 5.1 out of:
Some motherboards have 5.1 rca output(via 3 mini "head-phone" plugs on the board that run in to 6(3 par) rca cables)

If your sound card has 5.1 rca outputs(6 plugs), just plug it in to your amps
If it dose not get a USB sound card with 5.1 rca outputs(6 plugs), than just plug it in to your amps.

You will need one 4ch amp(L/R/SL/SR) and two mono amps(C/LFE)


EDIT: about toslink:
When your computer outputs coax or toslink(or you change your coax to toslink) its in S/PDIF format and will need a decoder.
Every PC I have seen runing 5.1 has benn useing S/PDIF, but not every DVD player with toslink has benn useing S/PDIF.
This might be why (I really dont know).

something like this? http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...category=38642

Yea if you could post a list of compatable dvd players that would be great. Looks like I am not going to buy that damn thing. I hate to back out of a deal though.

I just got off the phone with the Customer Support at Panasonic Car audio division. He told me that the oiptical toslink input on the CY-AC300 is compatable with spdif and that i could connect it to any dvd player and that it wasn't a proprietary protocol.

So who was this that tried it and failed and are you sure they werent doing something wrong?

You can't always trust the knowledge of tech support but he did take the time to ask some knowledgable engineers.

I would go with tech support on this.

I found the review on some web site(I guse thay were doing something wrong).

I was thinking it should take any toslink format,
If you do get it tell us if ti works :-)

If you could possibly find the review. I would like to look at it. I plan on going and getting it later today. I will post my findings but i really would like to read that review