Analog vs. HDMI audio for Blu-ray

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It depends on 2 things mainly:

- the quality of the DA converters. The player might have better converters than the receiver or vice versa.

- Bass management: if you want to define a crossover point to direct low frequencies to the subwoofer it is generally better to stay in the digital domain (HDMI) to avoid multiple conversions. However, one of our audiophile members (zepherman) has the Denon pre/pro and uses the analog ins for SACD or DVDA and he doesn't notice the additional conversion. But then again his pre/pro cost about as much as a small car