Your best bet is to go with an entirely separate audio transport. I have experienced this first hand with my DSM3s, which otherwise perform outstandingly when the digital signal is transported directly through even the most basic spdif from the source. If you have monitors with a DSP, they may even pop or fail to lock signal occasionally, especially if your HDMI source is a computer. You will quickly find jitter becoming your worst nightmare.

This is very bad for studiophile or audiophile sound quality. ItвЂ™s my thought that I can get a Mac Mini and new HDMI-equipped receiver for under 2,000 and the sound will be comparable to dedicated media servers priced at 2,000 or higher. The audio stream is essentially reconstructed after being oscillated between each bit of video stream. My plan is to purchase a new receiver with HDMI inputs and attach a Mac Mini computer to use as a music server. This means the HDMI receiver must regenerate the audio clock based on instructions from the source. Since the video clock runs at 74MHz, it can't accurately handle audio that is multiples of 48khz, the end result of upsampling. Unfortunately, the designers failed to include a dedicated pin for a master audio clock therefore, the audio clock must be derived from the video clock. It's superb video clocking capabilities and convenience are obvious. HDMI is a very frustrating piece of technology. My experience with HDMI has unfortunately revealed it to be a poor audio transport.

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