Neoteck 4K DAC HDMI Audio Extractor with Volume Adjustment HDMI to Optical Spdif Toslink + R/L(RCA) + 3.5mm Stereo Audio Converter for Blu-ray DVD Player One SKY HD Box PS3 PS4

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Featuring a minimalist and stylish design, the converter can also be hidden out of sight to compliment the popular trend of discreet AV installations for both home users and professional installers. I knew that usb could do multi-channel into multi-channel dacs, I should have included that in my reply.

I would love to have a unit with 2 HDMI inputs with 4k and pass through of video with HDCP, one or two TOSLINK inputs, a high end multi-channel DAC that is good enough for music, a volume control and source switching via a remote to act as a lightweight pre/pro. The IR integration dongle is designed to allow you to connect the IR transmitter/blaster output from almost any device (such as a third party control system) directly into the IR receiver input of a MHUB system.

The HDMI output is used playing a movie in the living but the Analog Output is used for External DAC connected sources using the second zone in other rooms. PayPal Credit is a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH. I’m not too worried about jitter at my level, and I like keeping DAC/AMP costs down by using an older high-quality HDMI receiver, since I need 4-6 channels of amplification for my active speaker work. Parallel Internal Audio Output via HDMI+DAC is therefore not possible unlike offered by BD disc players with 2CH/MCH analog outputs (and often conversion to MCH PCM output for DD/DTS).

As one of the world’s leading suppliers of cables, converters and adapters you’re sure to find everything you need here at Lindy Electronics. COAX is prefered over TOSLINK as TOSLINK has also some limitations (more info can be found also on this forum). Yorkshire AV is a trading name of Yorkshire AV Ltd, registered in England and Wales, Company Registration Number – 12078895. Royal Mail First Class International Untracked Airmail Services - Items are usually delivered within 15 working days.The audio side runs stereo because that’s pretty much all there is out there in terms of recordings, and so the coax feeds out to a Musical Fidelity V-DAC II/V-PSU II combo, thence to the AV receiver.

The DAC-8P 4K is broadcast quality converter, and it supports up to DCI 4K (4096 x 2160) and UHD 4K (3840 x 2160). I’m also convinced there would be no benefit to adding an external stereo DAC, and with HDCP limits reapplied it could only sound worse. The alternative is to use one of the many I2S DAC’s that are available and transport the analog signals to the amplifier (use good cables as analog signal are more sensative to ‘radation’ from surrounding cables and devices). Royal Mail First Class International Untracked Airmail Services - Items are usually delivered within 10 working days.

If I connect my Pi to a home A/V receiver via HDMI, how would audio quality compare to coming out of a DAC? I checked Microsoft media player on Windows 7 and found async USB DAC clock becomes master of movie file playback and audio data sent to USB DAC is bit-perfect while video frame may be skipped intermittently. We had to do a lot of work to strip the signal down to just the audio signals, add a dedicated clock, split the HDMI off the video power supply, etc.

This does assume that the DAC in question can actually use the external master clock signal, to properly re-clock signals from SPDIF- some units do this more effectively than others. Looks like OSX developers are aware of possible sync/timimng issues using USB audio with video playback. The HD12DB features an HDMI loop out to pass the original video and multi-channel embedded audio signal to compatible equipment, with a second HDMI output featuring video scaling of resolutions up to 4K 60Hz 4:4:4 video to various lower video formats. For TV I just go to that channel on the pre and for either CD or Streaming I go to that channel on my pre. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

The DAC-9P even embeds the audio from HDMI into the SDI signal so only one single low cost cable is needed.