I have an Oppo BluRay player. In order to send 24/96 sound to my DAC when playing a BluRay audio disc, I purchased an inexpensive device called a "de-embedder". The one that I bought was by Kanex and I got it from Amazon. The Oppo has two HDMI outputs that can be set-up so that one is for video and the other is audio. Connect the "video" to your TV, and the "audio" to the de- embedder. Then connect the de-embedder to your DAC by Toslink or coax. Works like a charm and costs $75. The BluRay audio discs that I have sound terrific.
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If I use an external dac with a blu-ray player, apparently I cannot get lossless audio for movies unless it is an HDMI dac. Per oppo:
"Due to bandwidth limitations, high resolution audio formats such as Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD High Resolution and DTS-HD Master Audio cannot be sent through the coaxial or optical digital audio output. A reduced resolution version of the same audio track will be output instead. To listen to high resolution audio formats in their best quality, please use the HDMI connection..."
My question is if I use my computer to play blu-rays or ripped bluray mkv files and use a usb dac will I get lossless audio? Using an ifi idsd. thank you.