Jon420
New Head-Fier
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I am looking to set my room with a sweet audio/video setup. I would like to be able to choose audio to come from my tv, or from my computer, and go to either my speakers, or to my headphones. My tv and computer will be connected via hdmi. Off my computer I will have a dac, going into a 2 input, 1 output switch. The other input will be coming from the tv. The output goes into an amp. The first switch let's me decide weather my audio input into my amp is from computer/dac, or tv. At the amp out, I'll have a 1 input, 2 output switch that lets me decide whether to send the audio out a set of speakers, or to headphones. If I choose to send through headphones, it goes to a 1 input, 4 output switch, where I'll have 4 headphones plugged in, and be able to decide which I'd like to use. My question is, will there be any noticeable degradation in sound quality over such a long chain. if I play audio from my computer, through headphones, the sound must go through a dac, a switch, a amp, then 2 more switches. I guess I could remove 1 switch and have my a/b/c/d switch coming off the amp, and one output to the speakers and the other 3 to headphones. I'm open to suggestions. I think the setup would be pretty sweet, but I don't want to spend a bunch, only to discover it sounds terrible going through so many things. From my understanding it's no problem going through a dac, amp and switch. Will going through another switch or 2 even be noticeable? Also, is there a way to dac the tv in a setup like that, or can I only take the audio, and amplify it and send out to the speakers? I am attaching a rough draft drawing of my first idea. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thanks