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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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it's a samsung TV. from a cursory google, it seems like the tidal app on the samsung TV os only draws down the hifi/CD-quality stream (no MQA). I can probably learn to live with that to be honest - this setup was originally meant to be vinyl only but just thought I'd try add in streaming because why not (plus I bagged a 6 month free tidal trial via)
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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?