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blgentry:
I don't think any of that is necessary or beneficial.

The vast majority of audio that is in movies and TV shows is 48kHz.  So you should be able to play the multichannel audio from nearly any video file without any sample rate conversion.  I don't think you need any kind of external USB device.

You might make an argument about a 2 channel USB DAC providing different (and maybe better) sound quality than the DACs in your receiver, for 2 channel content (CD rips, etc), but that's a totally different point.

For Movies and TV, it should be just fine with HDMI.

NOTE:  I have not tested this with an M1 based Mac.

Brian.

JHR:

--- Quote from: blgentry on October 26, 2021, 05:57:14 pm ---I don't think any of that is necessary or beneficial.

The vast majority of audio that is in movies and TV shows is 48kHz.  So you should be able to play the multichannel audio from nearly any video file without any sample rate conversion.  I don't think you need any kind of external USB device.
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Brian.

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Thanks Brian. I guess I just didn't want to be "locked in" to that bitrate, especially given that my older Mac Mini seems perfectly capable of differing rates.

But I guess I hadn't realized that most streamed movie and TV show audio is 48kHz, so I'm going to go ahead and use HDMI for that on the M1. Here's hoping it works, because the 4k video output from the M1 is what I want!

As you also said, I can always use a stereo USB dac for dedicated audio. Thanks again!

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