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Streaming from a TV

I am setting up a nice system in an audio/video room.  I am trying to think thru how I'm going to play movies and music thru a TV with a nice DAC.  I will probable stream music through a streamer when I am listening to music but I would like to take advantage of my nice equipment when watching movies.   Is there any streamers that I can run the toslink from my TV thru that will clean the  signal and maybe change the input to the DAC like a DDC.  I know I can run straight to a DAC if it has Toslink but it won't sound as good.  How good would the Denafrips Gaia be if I just streamed from a laptop and ran the TV and laptop thru it?  Would I need this if I get a really high end DAC?  II know there are plenty of people doing this same thing so let me know what you are doing in your setup.  

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mswale
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Use HDMI, so much better, also easier to setup. HDMI has full bandwidth, toslink does not.

In my HT setup, my TV is the hub, everything plugs into it, using eArc from the TV to the receiver. TV is set for passthrough for sources and PCM for the TV. Using BlueJeans HDMI 2.1 cables, receiver is plugged directly into my WiFi router, as is the TV. 

Movies sounds wonderful, get my full surround sound. I can stream directly to my receiver using Tidal Connect, it displays song with artwork on the TV. Can also Airplay to the tv, but not as good as direct. 

With eArc, my receiver will automatically turn on/off change sources, keeps the settings for each source. 

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brbrock OP
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@mswale I would love to run the signal  thru the  TV on everything but I don't think the signal will be the greatest.  I have an exceptional Smc Audio preamp being built from Scratch.  So it will need to go straight to a DAC or thru a streamer.

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audiodidact
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My TV is also the hub for AV eARC to the receiver then pre-out to pass-through of preamp which will feed the L&R fronts only. The receiver takes care of the Center channel and the surrounds. But when I want to stream music from TV (YouTube/Tiny Desk, etc),  I prefer 2.0 stereo, so I use a Toslink from the TV to a Schitt Modi dac to the preamp with an aux input just for that use and which feeds the two front mains bypassing the AV system. Sound is great, because the signal has been kept in the 2.0 channel chain. 

vinylshadow
497 posts
 

Connect a Chromecast dongle to the TV's HDMI?

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