Monster
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This is my first 'real' post which I hope may be useful to someone.
I am using one these HDMI audio extractors to stream from Amazon Music Unlimited to a Fire TV HD stick then to my SMSL DAC over coax. This is done 'headless', casting music using Alexa cast from my android phone with no TV or display attached. When I first installed this I was finding that every three or four minutes there was an audio dropout lasting about a second.
After a lot of messing about, I noticed that when I had the output from the HDMI extractor plugged into the TV, for instance for changing settings on the Fire Stick, then the dropouts didn't occur. The solution, as I'm sure many here have already figured out, was one of these plugged into the extractor's HDMI output. No more dropouts.
I must admit, until I had this problem I didn't know these 'ghost' monitor EDID plugs existed, but then you learn something new every day.
I am using one these HDMI audio extractors to stream from Amazon Music Unlimited to a Fire TV HD stick then to my SMSL DAC over coax. This is done 'headless', casting music using Alexa cast from my android phone with no TV or display attached. When I first installed this I was finding that every three or four minutes there was an audio dropout lasting about a second.
After a lot of messing about, I noticed that when I had the output from the HDMI extractor plugged into the TV, for instance for changing settings on the Fire Stick, then the dropouts didn't occur. The solution, as I'm sure many here have already figured out, was one of these plugged into the extractor's HDMI output. No more dropouts.
I must admit, until I had this problem I didn't know these 'ghost' monitor EDID plugs existed, but then you learn something new every day.