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blu ray coax out

If I run Coax out from a blu ray player to a dac, with the player decoding the lossless formats (dolby true hd/dts master audio) to PCM, to a 2 channel system (the 5.1 mixes downmixed to 2 channel), will the dac receive the lossless tracks or the lossy core?  And a related question: will the audio be down converted from 24/48 to 16/48?  thank you     
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caphill
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HDMI is the only digital connection that can transmit those lossless formats (Dolby True-HD & DTS HD-Master Audio) from bluray discs to the full resolution (26/48 or 24/96).
If you use coax or optical digital (Toslink) out it will down convert it to lossy core (16/48).

On your bluray player you will have to change the setting on the coax output to PCM. 
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