Optical Audio Jack on a current model Airport Express (model A1392, 2015 purchase)---What digital optical connector/adaptor is needed? My stereo has a TOS connector, but I am not familiar with the Analog/Optical jack on the Airport end. What sort of cable connector does it need?
It's called a mini-TOSlink. It has the same dimensions as a 3.5mm headphone jack, but is simply a small tube. You can buy adaptors from the mini plug to the standard TOSlink socket to stick on the end of a normal lead, or leads with one type at each end. Some leads come with a couple of detachable adaptors supplied.
For example:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002MQGRM?keywords=mini-toslink&qid=1456440946 &ref_=sr_1_6&sr=8-6
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00T8HWUVS?keywords=mini-toslink&qid=1456440946 &ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1
The digital portion of the Express base station's audio port takes a 3.5 mm optical digital miniplug. You can either use a miniplug to TOS adapter or a cable which already has the plug at one end.
Yes, that makes sense. Thank you for the amazon links as well.
Thank you Tesserax too---now I know about 3.5 mm optical digital TOS mini plugs.
Optical Audio Jack on an Airport Express, What digital optical connector/adaptor is needed?
