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In Reply to: Basic HDMI question posted by Dholai on November 6, 2006 at 15:52:22:
I would recommend using coaxial cable for audio transimission over HDMI, simply because it sounds better. but that is if you are not using one of those latest receivers from Sony which are m-ch LPCM compatible. Those receivers can accept linear PCM uncompressed audio from a blu-ray / HD-DVD player, and transmission is via HDMI cable only.On my new Sony STR-DA5200ES, I can assign coaxial or optical as the audio transmission, and one of its HDMI inputs as video transmission from an upscaling DVD player. It is convenient, allowing me to get better sound (coaxial) and better picture (HDMI) simultaneously while watching DVDs.
While using HDMI for 2-ch PCM audio, DTS or Dolby Digital soundtracks, i often notice some sort of "digital fatigue". It is a form of peakiness or edginess of sound usually associated when movie/music's audio data contains polluted wordclock(jitter).
What I am trying to say is that HDMI transmission seems to be injecting very audible amount of wordclock jitter into the movie/music's data stream so that listening to them is uncomfortable (like a kind of edgy, nervous feeling). I actualy feel more comfortable listening to movie/music using the sony factory supplied coaxial cable (orange coded RCA jacks), as long as they are plugged in in the correct directionality. This edgy nervous feeling is absent when using coaxial cables.But iLink cable is even better than coaxial (due to its re-clocking function, performed at the receiver side). So if a receiver (like my older STR-DA7100ES) has both assignable iLink and HDMI, then it is recommended to assign iLink for audio and HDMI for video while watching DVDs.
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