A/V DACs, how exactly do they work?


I feel very silly asking this but I can't seem to find a direct answer anywhere on the internet. 

I recently purchased a yamaha 3070 as part of a package speaker deal. (I'm relatively new to audio, and have mostly just stuck to CD players diectly into stereo receivers without internal DACS.) 

Now, since this A/V receiver has an 
  • audiophile-grade 32-bit/192kHz ESS Sabre PRO Premier digital-to-analog converters for 7 main channels

How exactly would I use this internal DAC? Do i Simply run a male to male from a CD player? Or a USB to  male from my computer into andio inputs and that's it? 


moskaudio

Showing 1 response by swampwalker

to must use the internal DAC you must input a digital signal to the optical (audio 1, 2 or AV3) or coax (audio 3, AV 1, 2) or hdmi inputs (AV 1-7).