optic hd

[aussiephil]

I have an Onkyo tx-sr701 and a panasonic dmp- bd65 now obviously due my receivers age a need to use optic cable, my question is my research shows my amp has a sampling rate of 96kHz/24bit but i believe i read it can carry 126kHz/24p what i want to know is can it, and is my receive producing true hd audio or is it automatically being down scaled 5.1 or even 5.1es.

question 2 whats the max sampling rate of optic versus hdmi?

is hdmi 124khz/24p and or what sampling rate is lossless audio?


Any and all answers are all appreciated

Thanks

 

[m_vanmeter]

un-decoded HD audio codecs can only be sent to a decoding receiver by HDMI. Some players will decode the HD audio and send it over HDMI as LPCM. Other blu-ray players will decode the signal and output it as individual analog audio channel pre-outs where you would have 6 individual channel outputs to feed direct audio inputs on some receivers.

You will get only Dolby Digital 5.1 over Toslink optical cable or digital audio coaxial cable. That is still full 5.1 Dolby surround, it is just compressed a bit so as not to exceed the bandwidth of the optical/coaxial cables.

Your blu-ray player does not have the individual channel audio out, so it HDMI or optical to get sound to the a/v receiver.