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Sshmau replied to the thread Smyth Research Realiser A16.You can't get more than 2ch PCM out of any optical output. That's the way optical/toslink/spdif is.
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Sshmau replied to the thread Smyth Research Realiser A16.In my experience the optical outputs don't work in AV (speaker) mode. I tried to use them for a stereo downmix in the past with AV mode...
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Sshmau replied to the thread Smyth Research Realiser A16.I don't think the latter is true. All versions should do 4k60 18Gbps.
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Sshmau replied to the thread Smyth Research Realiser A16.And I thought I had a complex setup :)
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Sshmau replied to the thread Smyth Research Realiser A16.You probably mean the DAC 8 stereo because the pro only has USB and AES.
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Sshmau replied to the thread Smyth Research Realiser A16.You could try something like https://www.orei.com/products/4k-hdmi-audio-extractor-arc-earc-auto-edid-management-hda-929, or potentially...
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Sshmau replied to the thread Smyth Research Realiser A16.No, zero preorders shipped. Read back if you need more info (not that there is much though). There's nothing you can say that hasn't...
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Sshmau replied to the thread Smyth Research Realiser A16.While you should use a powered splitter, switcher or matrix, I'm having trouble understanding what exactly you tried to achieve. And I'm...
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Sshmau replied to the thread Smyth Research Realiser A16.Sort of off topic but I got the Virtuoso software for my laptop. It does produce a pretty convincing base layer. I am once again unable...
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Sshmau replied to the thread Smyth Research Realiser A16.That's correct but it's not really a big deal. On macOS it's set up as a 16ch aggregate device and one of the dac8 is the master clock...
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Sshmau replied to the thread Smyth Research Realiser A16.Exactly
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Sshmau replied to the thread Smyth Research Realiser A16.Not very useful if you already have a surround setup. It might be interesting to try but basically that would mean not taking advantage...
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Sshmau replied to the thread Smyth Research Realiser A16.An ARC/eARC port such as that on the unit you linked is an output port (ARC/eARC flows from display to source which is reverse...
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Sshmau replied to the thread Smyth Research Realiser A16.The HDMI output on all models should allegedly contain 8ch of decoded audio, however I've never tried it. So technically you do have...
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Sshmau replied to the thread Smyth Research Realiser A16.You cannot, and you also cannot have individual delays for each speaker. The A16 alone is therefore not really capable of being a full...