Dutch & Dutch 8c with multiple sources

I’m really interested in getting the Dutch & Dutch 8c. I want to use a Mac mini for music, however I also want to be able to run the audio from my TV through the them. How would I do this?

e9181104-04-2021 11:40am

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e91811 OP Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 26 posts 04-04-2021 at 05:02pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete I don’t want to introduce another dac into the system. Can someone please tell me the names of a few preamps that would work?
e91811 OP Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 26 posts 04-05-2021 at 12:44am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete If I use a cheap external dac as a preamp then I’m limiting the quality of the input to the 8c, which is fine for tv but is terrible for music from the computer
e91811 OP Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 26 posts 04-04-2021 at 09:05pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete I do not think there are any hifi preamps that take two or more toslink inputs and have an aes3 output. Or do I misunderstand how to do this?
e91811 OP Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 26 posts 04-05-2021 at 12:39am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete I thought spdif and toslink are the same thing. It’s an optical output, spdif
e91811 OP Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 26 posts 04-05-2021 at 01:33am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete djones51: thank you for that article, that has a lot of useful information however, I really want to get rid of extra dacs and use the DAC in the 8c
e91811 OP Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 26 posts 04-04-2021 at 11:51pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete What a nightmare. All this just for audio from my tv.
e91811 OP Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 26 posts 04-05-2021 at 01:43am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete All D&D needed to do was include one optical spdif input and it would have saved users so much grief. This is a real design flaw
e91811 OP Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 26 posts 04-05-2021 at 01:21am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Is it possible to plug the Mac mini into the network socket (via router) for use with Roon and also have something plugged into the aes socket?

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