Originally Posted by Brad
I know the best solution is a HD621. If I were to buy the HD621, what would the connection be to the input of the HD621. I would like to understand why the HD621 is the solution for loosing MHR connection with my old G98? I want my DVD audio disks to sound as they did with my G98.
I have an Oppo 103D which feeds an HD621 via HDMI and then 3 x RCA digital smart link to G61R.

This configuration is not 'purist' enough for many on this forum due to jitter issues over HDMI etc. however, it works well enough for me for occasional SACD although the decoding is done in the the Oppo.

I do not own any DVD-A discs but playing DVD music videos with 5.1 format over the HDMI connection I do notice an improvement by enabling LPCM conversion in the Oppo, over sending the AC3 bitstream to the G61R. The 5200s also indicate 96KHz when the Oppo is set to LPCM and 48KHz when AC3 is sent to the G61R.

Playback Setup -> DVD-Audio mode should be set to DVD-Audio
Audio Format Setup -> HDMI Audio LPCM

For your non-HDMI set-up try changing the Audio Format Setup -> Coaxial/Optical Output setting to one of the LPCM settings. 96k should work. Compare that with the Bitstream setting.

Experimentation is the key!

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