HDMI Audio Quality Worse than Optical

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Interconnects, speaker wire, power cords. Ask the Cable Guys.

Ok, this one isn't obvious to me.

When running digital devices HDMI out to TV, and then TV optical out to DAC the audio fidelity is worse than when running optical direct to the DAC from those devices. Everything I've read should mean that the bits are kept in tact/ lossless in HDMI stream.

Am I crazy?

Revel f208s
Parasound A21
Emotiva Xsp-1 Gen2
Schiit Gugnir Dac
And other things

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Topic - HDMI Audio Quality Worse than Optical - mfinity 13:55:21 03/10/15 (2)

Not to mention the extra connections - sbrians 13:10:08 03/13/15 (0)

RE: HDMI Audio Quality Worse than Optical - Duster 18:07:38 03/10/15 (0)

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