This has been posted before but I've just been wondering about this myself as I have a new universal transport type blu ray player (Pioneer PDB-LX55) that can output sound only over HDMI .
If I wanted to use it as a disc based music transport, I'd have to go through my AV amp, then back to my HiFi amp. Assuming I had a decent separate DAC I could get good sound quality but I'd imagine there would be loads of jitter and stuff introduced by the extra steps ....
Otherwise, I have to rely on the DAC in the player, or AV amp - they are just never going to do that good a job compared to a decent standalone DAC.
In 2014, the year of High Def music, surely its about time HiFi DACs have HDMI inputs, in the same way they have adopted Async USB etc.
Its just another feature to destinguish one product from another.
Thoughts?
If I wanted to use it as a disc based music transport, I'd have to go through my AV amp, then back to my HiFi amp. Assuming I had a decent separate DAC I could get good sound quality but I'd imagine there would be loads of jitter and stuff introduced by the extra steps ....
Otherwise, I have to rely on the DAC in the player, or AV amp - they are just never going to do that good a job compared to a decent standalone DAC.
In 2014, the year of High Def music, surely its about time HiFi DACs have HDMI inputs, in the same way they have adopted Async USB etc.
Its just another feature to destinguish one product from another.
Thoughts?