One can find a thread like that for every sound device in existence, though.

The fellow there, "murky" - says he couldn't get his S/PDIF to work on the Delta card, then he says he got rid of it and got an E-MU card.

"murky" flames, gets the first answer to that post - and then asks, "What is a DAW?" *grin*

There are folks on the E-MU forum flaming E-MU for the exact same reason, though - claims that they cannot get the S/PDIF to work.

In the case of both brands, there are plenty of others who have indeed gotten the S/PDIF to work for them.

This "problem" could easily be a lack of understanding on the part of the user.

For example, they may not realize that the S/PDIF input MUST be set to clock from whatever device is plugged into it.

Or they may have some other problem that could be correctable.

If you return the device unopened, you will never know if you could have used it with your setup or not.

And - Is the S/PDIF important to the way in which you intend to use the device anyway?


--Mac