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12.26.42.2
If I use an external dac with a blu-ray player, apparently I cannot get lossless audio for movies unless it is an HDMI dac. Per oppo:
"Due to bandwidth limitations, high resolution audio formats such as Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD High Resolution and DTS-HD Master Audio cannot be sent through the coaxial or optical digital audio output. A reduced resolution version of the same audio track will be output instead. To listen to high resolution audio formats in their best quality, please use the HDMI connection..."
My question is if I use my computer to play blu-rays or ripped bluray mkv files and use a usb dac will I get lossless audio? Using an ifi idsd. thank you.
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Think it is an issue with the movie studios. IIRC Gary Gallo mentioned this in AudioXpress. He was using Oppo 105 with Benchmark dac. To get around it there is a box that accepts hdmi and converts it to spdif.
"KanexPro HAECOAX HDMI Audio De-Embedder," AudioXpress, July 2016.
Hope this helps.
That's pretty much 100% dependent on the software you use.
The limitation they talk about is pretty inherent to the SPDIF transport used on coaxial and optical connections. You can push 96/24 PCM over SPDIF, but they might not have support in hardware for that (for whatever reason).
None of that will matter on your PC as you can push an HD signal to it already...the software just needs to be able to do it and actually make it work.
Provoked by your post, I gave it a try and installed AnyDVD-HD.
I am now playing a BluRay disc on my PC via JRiver with USB out to my exaSound DAC. However, so far, all I have is the 48KHz stereo track because JRiver does not give me access to disc menus. Will try ripping it and see if I can do better.
I am sure it is is possible.
Can you teach poor Mikey how to rip Blu Rays and SACDs?
Nt
"I know just enough to get into trouble. But not enough to get out of it."
He just got tired of Life...
nt
"I know just enough to get into trouble. But not enough to get out of it."
/
and can figure it out for himself.
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