I want to feed audio from my console setup to my DAC, is optical out of the back of my TV worth using? I have multiple consoles with optical output but only one input on my DAC. is there any risk to sound quality in letting my TV convert HDMI audio into optical output?
I don’t imagine it would make a difference at all. Another option is to use a dedicated optical switch. If you have the hardware, you could investigate if it’s resampling your HDMI audio input. For example, if 24bit @192 goes in, is that what goes out?