5 ish years ago.. Since then I've got a bit out of touch with latest gear available.. I'm only half awake at moment, just slept off a massive cottage pie - explains clumsly accidental post of half written answer.. oops.. but heres a brief extract from the first clever looking explanation I could find. www.homestudiocorner.com "Optical connections are normally one of two things – S/PDIF or ADAT. While S/PDIF is normally on a coaxial (RCA) connector, it CAN be on an optical connector. It will almost always be labeled. If the optical connection is an ADAT signal, it can carry not two but eightchannels of audio (at 44.1 kHz or 48 kHz). If your interface has an ADAT optical input, you can add an additional eight channels of inputs into your system"
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