04-06-2021, 09:02 PM
Hi,
Sorry for the late reply. Actually, I'm trying to remove the TV from the equation and to use the soundbar as Internet radio, and to listen to some ripped FLAC files. As you correctly mention it has HDMI ARC, optical, Bluetooth, and USB. Unfortunately, the USB is just a mass storage device and it cannot be used directly as input (on top it does not support FLAC and Bluetooth is draining the battery when it is used the whole day).
My confusion was with the S/PDIF and optical input. For me, they were the same, but it seems not. This is the reason why I asked why I need DAC for the optical input since it is digital. It seems that I don't need DAC in this case. So I bought a splitter to extract the audio signal and to pass it to the optical output.
This soundbar is quite cheap and probably internal DAC is not that good (speakers are far from great as well), but it has a noticeable difference when you play something via Bluetooth and AirPlay. And even more when FLAC is streamed directly from the NAS drive.
Sorry for the late reply. Actually, I'm trying to remove the TV from the equation and to use the soundbar as Internet radio, and to listen to some ripped FLAC files. As you correctly mention it has HDMI ARC, optical, Bluetooth, and USB. Unfortunately, the USB is just a mass storage device and it cannot be used directly as input (on top it does not support FLAC and Bluetooth is draining the battery when it is used the whole day).
My confusion was with the S/PDIF and optical input. For me, they were the same, but it seems not. This is the reason why I asked why I need DAC for the optical input since it is digital. It seems that I don't need DAC in this case. So I bought a splitter to extract the audio signal and to pass it to the optical output.
This soundbar is quite cheap and probably internal DAC is not that good (speakers are far from great as well), but it has a noticeable difference when you play something via Bluetooth and AirPlay. And even more when FLAC is streamed directly from the NAS drive.
