2016 MacBook Pro drops digital audio out on 3.5mm jack

[zMeul]

12 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

From a electronics perspective, if it's digital all the way until the very last step, it doesn't matter. If you have so much noise that your digital signal gets hosed, you have a bigger issue to tackle. The only time I've see optocouplers used for electronics isolation is in low-end power supplies. Higher end ones use isolation transformers.

 

At the end of the day though, TOSLINK lacks features that I need. It doesn't matter if it's optical.

I haven't looked

but I suspect TrueHD and DTS Master capable receivers, without dynamic range compression, aren't for mere mortals

for the rest of us, 5.1 DD and DTS is enough - I use TOSLink and I'm quite happy with it since the power and digital signal from the source never gets mixed into the DAC

 

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audio professions don't use more than stereo and the TOSLink is quite capable of delivering two channel PCM audio

Edited November 6, 2016 by zMeul