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I find TV output is a bit disappointing compared to my (cheap but good) Allo Vana output - not sure if they do tidal, but I'd look at Allo stuff for cheap but good quality output.
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would this work?
It would work, but depending on the hardware spec of your TV you might not be able to squirt full resolution MQA down the optical fibre. The mandatory spec is 48kHz/20bit, the fibre itself can easily handle 96kHz/24bit but only if your TV manufacturer has bothered to install a transmitter with that much bandwidth.
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I do this, it works great. No drop-out issues like I get with both Chromecast and Allo USBridge.
Edit: you’ll only get MQA if you use an MQA dac even if your source can output it. The only one I have is a dragonfly red which can’t take optical. I’ve used it wired from my phone to my headphone amp and it still sounds less agreeable than my Topping from the TV to my ears.
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I have a node 2i and yeah it does great, slightly over priced maybe, defo don't pay over £500. Theres a powered version too, it's defo overpriced, at £300 more your better off with a separate amp if similar value. I think they originally intended to be £400 and £600 was their target pricing.
Briefly had my new streamer taking its tv/ps4 sounds from the tv optical out (Samsung and quite old) as ps4 don't have an optical out of thee own and new streamer doesn't have a hdmi in out. Now have a hdmi to optical box. Difference in sound quality wasn't audiophile "mmm i detected that the xxxxxxxx", it was huge. Whatever the TV was doing to that sound stream waw bad.
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I have a TV, amp, turntable and speakers. I want to add spotify and tidal to my setup.
I can buy a streamer (e.g. node 2i) to run spotify and tidal through the amp to speakers. the node 2i can handle tidal's CD quality and MQA streams.
could I also just connect my TV (which has spotify and tidal) via optical out to a half-decent DAC and get equivalent sound quality? I'm thinking I could maybe save about £350 on the node 2i (£500) by buying a ~£150 DAC. would this work?