I've heard a lot about OPPO, and while I'm not really in the market for a new blu-ray player, I'm not opposed to getting a player that has individual analog outs as a last resort. I have no firsthand experience of it though.Thanks for the suggestions, Nathaniel! If you insist on hardware, Gefen has a box that does it, and Gefen is serious about getting this stuff right. I recommend listening to iTunes and HBOGO, both of which play decoded Dolby Digital 5.1 in macOS just fine. Unless you own an OPPO player, or a fancy receiver, it's a PITA to analog decode into the studio. I'm not looking for an audiophile piece of gear - just something that splits out the signal and plays it back acceptably well as line level outputs. The distortion appears to be happening within the unit itself, before it gets to the output.Īny suggestions on a hardware decoder just like this, except that it actually works well? Cheaper is better. Unless there's some sort of impedence mismatch, I don't think the problem is on my end I tried running a direct box after the center channel output and taking it down 40 db and then feeding the signal into my mixer.and it's still really distorted. The other channels don't exhibit this behavior as far as I can tell.
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Both units exhibited the same unfortunate behavior: when I feed the digital signal into the coaxial input, the center channel output is EXTREMELY distorted (we're talking hard clipped, square wave distorted) as soon as the channel gets moderately loud. However, after ordering two of them from different sellers, I've come to the conclusion that this unit is useless. Theoretically, this $15 eBay decoder should fit the bill: Basically, I just want to listen to the audio on my blu-rays but feed it into my analog mixer, ride the faders, and treat the audio on the blu-ray as if it's a multitrack recording (which, of course, it is). I would like to acquire a simple hardware decoder for AC3/DTS 5.1 so I can easily analyze the audio mixes in my blu-ray collection.