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Home theater preamp/processors. I use Anthem.Would it sound better to put optical straight into yggy or hdmi into a mystery box and then into yggy? Do people have recommendations on mystery sound processing boxes?
Home theater preamp/processors. I use Anthem.Would it sound better to put optical straight into yggy or hdmi into a mystery box and then into yggy? Do people have recommendations on mystery sound processing boxes?
I scored a few-years-old Pioneer Elite from Goodwill in FL off eBay. Even with shipping it was comparable to a good switcher and did more things (like drive my rear speakers).Would it sound better to put optical straight into yggy or hdmi into a mystery box and then into yggy? Do people have recommendations on mystery sound processing boxes?
You said that it's for watching broadcast opera on TV. You can just use the optical because quite frankly it will hardly make any difference at all. The audio won't be at the level of a high quality, well produced recording. The limiting factor is the quality of the audio source, not whether you're playing it through optical vs balanced AES/EBU.Would it sound better to put optical straight into yggy or hdmi into a mystery box and then into yggy?
My point is this. Have you compared the sound of optical vs other input? The difference is subtle and you have to listen very carefully to hear the difference between them. If you're watching a video at the same time, you won't hear a difference at all. Choose your battles wisely. You can get obvious gains by obsessing over things instead, such as speaker placement and room acoustics. Optical vs HDMI, not so much.I may also watch opera blurays and so on.
Amen! Better speakers/placement/acoustics (or better headphones when you're listening to them) always trump better electronics once you've got a solid system in place that can properly drive your transducers.My point is this. Have you compared the sound of optical vs other input? The difference is subtle and you have to listen very carefully to hear the difference between them. If you're watching a video at the same time, you won't hear a difference at all. Choose your battles wisely. You can get obvious gains by obsessing over things instead, such as speaker placement and room acoustics. Optical vs HDMI, not so much.
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Funny, it doesn't look like Bugs Bunny...Thank you all for this thoughtful input, it is very much appreciated. Just bought a Yamaha upright - and next will be deciding to go 55" or reduce to 48". They're the same price at Costco, and I want to make sure I don't get a TV that is too large for the space. The wall is already busy - Dawn on the Rhein is right next to it, with Siegfried and Grane. (Brunnhilde is on the opposite wall, riding into the funeral pyre.)
This may be of help.Thank you all for this thoughtful input, it is very much appreciated. Just bought a Yamaha upright - and next will be deciding to go 55" or reduce to 48". They're the same price at Costco, and I want to make sure I don't get a TV that is too large for the space. The wall is already busy - Dawn on the Rhein is right next to it, with Siegfried and Grane. (Brunnhilde is on the opposite wall, riding into the funeral pyre.)
USB ports on some PCs have a lot of electrical noise that reaches the DAC via the USB cable.The laptop sounded noticeably better. Desktop added some fuzz. Both wired into the same access point. Weird.
Sadly, Oppo is no longer. Probably want to check out Sony, Pioneer, and perhaps LG...
Also curious what the best blu-ray "transport" is to hook up to my forthcoming 55" OLED. If it has something better than optical out, that would be good. Yggy doesn't have 2 optical in, so if that's all I have, I would need to route the sound into the TV via HDMI and then out again via optical, and I'm sure some kind of quality degradation would happen.