Hi,
On my living room HiFi I'd like to be able to:
I want my dedicated HiFi DAC to do the audio conversion, not my AV receiver (which is great for surround and movies but pales against my Arcam FMJ D33 DAC).
The challenges with this are:
On my living room HiFi I'd like to be able to:
- Listen to Amazon Music HD
- Watch Youtube with high quality stereo audio.
I want my dedicated HiFi DAC to do the audio conversion, not my AV receiver (which is great for surround and movies but pales against my Arcam FMJ D33 DAC).
The challenges with this are:
- simple streaming boxes like Apple TV of Fire Stick don't have optical or coax outputs; just HDMI. By contrast, HiFi DACs don't tend to accept HDMI.
- I'm not keen on those cheapo HDMI extractors from Amazon: I've tried them before and there must be a better solution.
- I want to be able to watch the accompanying video - Bach Netherlands Society on youtube, for example, is superb. An audio only streamer like the Blue Sound Node doesn't do video.