I dont think it will work that way. Most likely the receiver will downmix it to PCM 16/44 for outputing over SPDIF to your dCS DAC. SPDIF doesnt have the bandwidth for high rez transmission.Ciaran wrote: And then the receiver could output high-rez digital to my DAC? (At the expense of having two new boxes!)
CD Review and BAL: Mahler’s Symphony no. 8 on 26th November
Re: CD Review and BAL: Mahler’s Symphony no. 8 on 26th Novem
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Re: CD Review and BAL: Mahler’s Symphony no. 8 on 26th Novem
The Squeezebox Touch can manage 96/24 over an SPDIF connection.
Re: CD Review and BAL: Mahler’s Symphony no. 8 on 26th Novem
ah ok, I was talking about the full soundtrack from a Blu-Ray.Ciaran wrote:The Squeezebox Touch can manage 96/24 over an SPDIF connection.
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Re: CD Review and BAL: Mahler’s Symphony no. 8 on 26th Novem
... and I'm just wondering if there's a way to get the Blu-Ray digital sound to my DAC at full strength!
Re: CD Review and BAL: Mahler’s Symphony no. 8 on 26th Novem
As far as I know, the movie studios are one of the main reasons why HDMI is used to transmit HD tracks from Blu-Ray digitally to another device. They are concerned about copyright protection so you have an encrytion/decrytion process occuring over HDMI as well as the actual audio/video data transfer.Ciaran wrote:... and I'm just wondering if there's a way to get the Blu-Ray digital sound to my DAC at full strength!
In your case the dCS DAC does not have HDMI so to my knowledge there is no way of getting the Blu-Ray sound into your DAC digitally.
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