How to connect a #DAC (Digital to Analog Converter) to an AV Receiver/Processor

[Music] whoa [Music] go let's go [Music] boom hello YouTube this is Magnolia Mo and I am back with another video uh in today's video I'm gonna actually do a follow-up to one of uh one of my previous videos I about five months ago I had um posted a video around integrating um a digital to analog converter how to integrate a DAC into your home theater system uh the the purpose of that video was primarily to show um folks uh you know who are not familiar with the concept right uh of of actually adding a DAC into your home theater system and and how you could actually improve the the audio the sound quality like when you're listening to music um the and I I briefly like touched or skimmed over uh you know the actual connections into the deck right of of uh of the deck into your receipt and your processor and and I had gotten quite a few questions around around you know okay well you've you know you've spent so much time on um you know music files and laptops and and but you haven't really spent the time that you you know on connecting the deck to the receiver or processor and I as I mentioned I had touched on it because I thought it was a fairly straightforward task right where you just use your balance or analog on audio outputs and go into your receiver or your processor so I thought based off of all the questions right it makes sense to do a video um showing uh the actual connections right at least that I have on my deck and and and you know kind of show folks on how to go about doing the actual physical connection and then in the case of the project pre-box S2 uh you know what the different settings are on on that deck that I primarily use and and that's basically it right so this is essentially a basic how to connect a DAC into your receiver or processor video so here's the project pre-box S2 digital uh digital to analog converter right the the front it's very small as you can see it's it's it's pretty Tiny But it puts out amazing sound so so you have various uh you know controls uh up front you do have the the headphone jack um it's not it's not the the three and a half millimeter one uh so so you have a a regular size headphone jack you have your inputs uh you have digital coax Optical USB and this is where I I keep I use you know I'm using my PC so so USB is the correct input to be on um you just put it back there uh the front display will give you the sampling rate uh right now nothing's playing so it's uh it's at 44.1 kilohertz you got your volume control right here so it's recommended to keep it at Max and control the volume from your uh from your receiver or processor and then it's got the the filters that you can select uh and obviously menu right so I am going to to use the remote control it's very tiny to actually show you the different uh options there are so uh it I'm gonna hit the the filter button uh on the remote and I have it on this little roll off so I just changed the input so let me go back to filter I have it on slow roll off let's go back again there's minimum phase phase minimum phase fast and slow linear appetizing hybrid filter brick wall filter optimal transient this is what project recommends do you have a fast roll-off where your Highs are going to roll off fast and you have a slow roll off where the highs are going to roll off uh you know in in slowly than than the other setting now this is very similar to the Oppo 205 the ax in that Oppo 205 the the 4K Blu-ray player so same same filters and and I used to set up the Oppo at that same slow roll off and it worked better for me but it's it's basically up to you how you you know which one whichever one works for you best so this is where I had all of the questions uh from uh you know my subscribers and folks who watched that last video right how do you actually connect a DAC to your processor so as you can see I mean I don't have X balance xlrs on this deck so I'm limited to the rck connection so all you do is you take your RCA cables right I have audio requests I forget which which ones these were but these were pretty nice so I I'm taking the left and right output and going into my Marantz um 8805 and then it you know just right around the back you have the power supply right here and that I don't use I use the power from uh I use the the USB to power the DAC from the PC you can use Optical and coax inputs but you're going to limit the sampling rates to to um you know you're not going to get full sampling rates off of those I believe uh for optical in coax you're limited to 96 kilohertz and then you have the USB input coming from my PC so that's basically it on the back of this deck and here's the the receiver end of my Marantz 8805 I'm going into the the uh the analog input 5 which is uh which is basically your your media player input on the on on my processor so essentially you will do the same you're gonna go in from uh you know go into your receiver using RCA jacks if that's all you have in this case my DAC does not have XLR um and therefore I am limited to the RCA connection so I hope you guys found this video useful uh and and if you like it you know please don't hesitate to do uh you know share the video subscribe to my channel and give it a thumbs up thumbs up two thumbs up uh and leave me your comments right I'd like to know from you guys what decks you have how you're making the connection what filter settings you you're using and how do you overall how do you find uh the experience right of using a deck versus just using uh you know your built-in decks on your receiver processor uh and uh and that's basically it all right so more to come uh from me in future videos so be on the lookout and have a great day

Channel: MagnoliaMo

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Length: 8min 9sec (489 seconds)

Published: Mon May 15 2023