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Tips on where to buy??

Postby qiktune » Fri Apr 16, 2010 12:13 pm

Hey guys, I need to buy a lightpipe for a RME ADI-8 Convertor but can't seem to find any love in this town.

Any clues on where I could look? I called a couple of distributors but their responses don't fill me with confidence....I wouldn't have thought that it'd be a very difficult item to get hold of.
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Re: Tips on where to buy??

Postby Sammas » Fri Apr 16, 2010 12:17 pm

qiktune wrote:Hey guys, I need to buy a lightpipe for a RME ADI-8 Convertor but can't seem to find any love in this town.

Any clues on where I could look? I called a couple of distributors but their responses don't fill me with confidence....I wouldn't have thought that it'd be a very difficult item to get hold of.



I would have thought Sound Devices would have stocked them.

Aren't the pretty common in the hi fi world as well?
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Re: Tips on where to buy??

Postby Kurt » Fri Apr 16, 2010 12:20 pm

A lightpipe being an optical cable? Dick Smith, JB Hi-Fi, Jaycar etc? eBay for cheap ;)


qiktune wrote:Hey guys, I need to buy a lightpipe for a RME ADI-8 Convertor but can't seem to find any love in this town.

Any clues on where I could look? I called a couple of distributors but their responses don't fill me with confidence....I wouldn't have thought that it'd be a very difficult item to get hold of.
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Postby qiktune » Fri Apr 16, 2010 12:46 pm

Hey Kurt, thanks for the reply. Yep that's the one. I did check out DSE and Jaycar online and found some but wasn't too sure about their quality. 18 months ago I may have bought a couple of cheap brands and not cared too much about the cost of replacing if they didn't work out....right now I need to buy once and buy right unfortunately.

I'll duck out to DSE later today and have a look...thanks
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Postby qiktune » Fri Apr 16, 2010 12:47 pm

Hey Sammas.....yep. As above to Kurt - was just curious as to the quality difference between consumer stuff at DSE and so called "pro-sumer" audio
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Postby spandex man » Fri Apr 16, 2010 12:59 pm

Im using Jaycar ones between my RME's and 003, they work fine. Its such a thin little cable im worried they will break anyway, and if they do break its only a couple of bucks to buy another.
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Postby Kurt » Fri Apr 16, 2010 2:03 pm

I have one from DSE and one from eBay, I use them to hook up ADA8000s to my Fostex HDD recorder. Both still working fine after several years of hard labour in a rack that gets reshuffled a lot.
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Postby Milo » Fri Apr 16, 2010 2:58 pm

WES has very good quality (not thin), and very cheap
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