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HDMI to Multi-channel audio adaptor

I'm interested in a convertor to harvest HDMI multi-channel audio signals - like I've seen on the new OPPO 95 with 32-bit multi-channel DAC's. I have a Proceed AVP2 +6 Pro and would like to maximize my investment like many other owner's of older high end processors.

Can anyone comment on the possible sound quality of this HDMI convertor, or, any other HDMI convertors with multi-channel music conversion abilities? Thank you very much.

http://www.octavainc.com/HDMI%20switch%204x2_7_1audio.html
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kr4
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Do you really think that the DACs and output stage of the Octava or similar will be in the class of what is in the Oppo 95 or similar? It will certainly work as will similar devices from Atlona and others.

Kal
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I don't understand. These boxes must have DACs in order to output via RCA analog connections. I also have no idea what "pre-HDMI" means.
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OK. I did not appreciate that meaning for "pre-HDMI" in the context of the statements. (Also, did you mean "multi-disk SACD player" or multichannel SACD player?)

As for the Oppo players, all of them have always had multichannel analog outputs, even the "pre-HDMI" Oppos, so I do not know how an article can say otherwise.

As for the Oppo 95, my comments about it appear in the September issue of Stereophile.

Kal
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