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I will likely order the monaural ChiFi amp and an HDMI 7.1 to RCA Extractor/DAC tomorrow and have them drop shipped to Amir for testing.
HDMI DACs are a rare breed, and Amir has already tested the only decent one I know of - the now sold out and discontinued HDACC II-4K HDMI DAC from Essence, a Florida company. The good news is that the $699 unit with only L/R RCA outputs has been replaced by a 7.1 that has RCA out for all 8-channels, and sells for a much lower price or $299.
Still, for my application and soon to be strained audio budget, and my need for only 3-channel L/C/R RCA out for video, I didn't want to spend $299. So I will stick with my original plan of using the $64 unit in the picture in my above post. That unit appears to be offered by many internet audio vendors around the world - same basic case design with a couple of variants of feature and port configuration.
Edit: Although this unit might have worked for me, I wanted something to replace my Topping DX7s DAC/Headphone Amp for two-channel music listening and use XLR interconnects. I was able to afford a full-on high quality AVP - the $900 IOTAVX 4K 7.1 unit, which also has room correction capability. That turned out to be a good choice, and works perfectly for me.
HDMI DACs are a rare breed, and Amir has already tested the only decent one I know of - the now sold out and discontinued HDACC II-4K HDMI DAC from Essence, a Florida company. The good news is that the $699 unit with only L/R RCA outputs has been replaced by a 7.1 that has RCA out for all 8-channels, and sells for a much lower price or $299.
Still, for my application and soon to be strained audio budget, and my need for only 3-channel L/C/R RCA out for video, I didn't want to spend $299. So I will stick with my original plan of using the $64 unit in the picture in my above post. That unit appears to be offered by many internet audio vendors around the world - same basic case design with a couple of variants of feature and port configuration.
Edit: Although this unit might have worked for me, I wanted something to replace my Topping DX7s DAC/Headphone Amp for two-channel music listening and use XLR interconnects. I was able to afford a full-on high quality AVP - the $900 IOTAVX 4K 7.1 unit, which also has room correction capability. That turned out to be a good choice, and works perfectly for me.
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