Stop blaming your receiver — this 40-year-old AV standard is killing your surround sound
TOSLINK had its day but it is time to move on
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Thanks for that. I had been considering moving back to TOSLINK as I'd been having trouble with eARC (and HDCP compliance) and was wondering whether taking the audio out of the chain may help.
I still might try it for the cost of a cable, as DTS 5.1 is all I'd need, but I hadn't really considered that it wasn't up to the job any more.
I still might try it for the cost of a cable, as DTS 5.1 is all I'd need, but I hadn't really considered that it wasn't up to the job any more.
I think it depends.
In that for simple stereo setups, i.e. a MiSTer, or something like that and it's still fine. And headphone DAC/AMPs tend to support Optical heavily. For a lounge set-up with 5.1 etc. optical has probably long been on the demise. Thinks like consoles moving away from it and ARC/eARC becoming the norm. Also latency with optical out from TV's can be an issue.
In that for simple stereo setups, i.e. a MiSTer, or something like that and it's still fine. And headphone DAC/AMPs tend to support Optical heavily. For a lounge set-up with 5.1 etc. optical has probably long been on the demise. Thinks like consoles moving away from it and ARC/eARC becoming the norm. Also latency with optical out from TV's can be an issue.
I pretty much gave up on optical/toslink in 2008 when I bought my first and only standalone blu-ray player, I bought my first HDMI AV receiver shortly afterwards. I needed both for the lossless sound formats. I did keep the old leads (I had 2 for some reason) though as you never know when you might need them. I reused the first one for a soundbar that dad had bought, Second one has gone back into use from my PC into my AV receiver for stereo music duties, when I temporarily did not have a pair of PC desktop speakers.