[arch-general] HDMI audio input - HDMI microphone

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 21:30:26 +0000, Neven Sajko wrote:
>> As a former audio engineer who worked for one of the two famous
>> German microphone companies, my intuitive thought is still to prefer
>> S/PDIF over USB. Perhaps I'm just a dino who missed that all gear
>> nowadays is equipped with USB. In my experiences a lot of consumer
>> gear provides S/PDIF, but not necessarily USB, so assumed you one
>> day want to connect your digital microphone to some other equipment
>> (not to a computer), there might be no USB port available, while
>> S/PDIF usually is available.  
>
>Actually, after reading the Wikipedia S/PDIF article it seems that
>S/PDIF does not have enough bandwidth for my purposes, since I am
>building a microphone array. Wikipedia implies that no more than 5
>channels of PCM can sent over S/PDIF.

5 or more channels?

If your intention should go into this direction:
http://www.marquetteaudiolabs.com/product_spl_atmos51.html

If so, don't waste your time ;). It failed!