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Spdif out of Amazon Echo of Fire TV
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Echo Link! 
don't know why it didn't show up in my numerous searches for "echo" in Amazon.de...
Anyways, I read here in ASR that the link dowsamples eveything etc etc. Would I be better served by a fire tv stick + some sort of audio extractor with spdif out or is there yet another solution?
don't know why it didn't show up in my numerous searches for "echo" in Amazon.de...Anyways, I read here in ASR that the link dowsamples eveything etc etc. Would I be better served by a fire tv stick + some sort of audio extractor with spdif out or is there yet another solution?
I use an audio extractor with the firestick to get TV audio into my KEF LSXs via spdif; it certainly sounds a lot better by that route than any other (bluetooth, Aux in...) Amir says a simple audio extractor doesn't downsample: https://www.audiosciencereview.com/...amazon-basics-4k-hdmi-extractor-review.39467/
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Hey Mal, thanks for your answer.
I eventually got the fire stick and precisely the same Amazon basics extractor that amir reviewed.
It is true that the fire stick connected to the Amazon basics extractor outputs Amazon music HD at 192khz no matter what, so it might not down-sample but it surely up-samples (the stick, not the extractor).
Anything else coming out of the fire stick/Amazon basics extractor is at 48khz. So I would say it (the fire stick) probably downsamples content when it is originally not 48khz.
I eventually got the fire stick and precisely the same Amazon basics extractor that amir reviewed.
It is true that the fire stick connected to the Amazon basics extractor outputs Amazon music HD at 192khz no matter what, so it might not down-sample but it surely up-samples (the stick, not the extractor).
Anything else coming out of the fire stick/Amazon basics extractor is at 48khz. So I would say it (the fire stick) probably downsamples content when it is originally not 48khz.
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