Best way to connect Mytek Brooklyn Bridge to Hegel H390?

to me the mytek sound is too bright... unnaturally bright

your best bet is to run the node 2i spdif rca out into h390 use its dac... be sure to pick the right setting on the node 2i pertaining to mqa - mqa content from tidal should sound very balanced, while redbook res tidal will be a touch bright

iirc the bridge will not work as a network streamer and deliver a digital signal out... it will always run its digital inputs through its onboard dac, and thus it provides only analog outputs to a downstream device, not digital ones for another outboard dac

thus to use the bridge, you must connect to the hegel via stereo rca or xlr connections (analog)

otoh, the hegel h390 itself makes the bridge unnecessary as it has its own network streamer input and then you use its own (excellent) onboard dac, which also decodes mqa... in that way, the hegel duplicates most of the capabilities of the bb

only if you are using wifi streaming via the bridge (which the hegel does not do) would you need it to feed its analog output into the hegel