Um… none of the DACs do multichannel do they? Sure and AVR will, but that’s not what 90% of this site is about. Or am I missing something?
again...S/PDIF does not pass lossless multichannel.
The connection options for consumers who listen to such audio are:
1) HDMI
2) analog
and possibly some nightmarish frankenstein setup involving pro audio interfaces and USB or ADAT conversion as (3), for Trell