Thanks for the helpful feedback although I may have to block you as I’m not sure I can afford to read many more of your posts😜
As an aside, I think I recall you picked up a 2-track, 15ips Master Tape copy of a Yello album at AXPONA last year. Did it live up to your expectations?
The tape deck I bought to play it did not work. Wrong capstan drive installed pre sale. 7 1/2 instead of 15. At half speed it didn’t sound right.
Well that stinks - although the bass on “Oh Yeah” at 7-1/2 must have been amazing!
If you ever decide to sell the tape, let me know.
Can someone chime in on how an AppleTV would be integrated with Bacch 4Mac?
Would I need to feed the optical output from my LG TV into the RME (I currently feed the optical of my TV to my DAC) then USB out to the Baach Mac?
Is there a way to use the AppleTV app on the Bacch Mac using HDMI out to the TV for video and audio going through Bacch processing via USB to my DAC?
My testing with a new Mac Mini M4 is that Apple Mac Minis are still crap at working with others’ consumer AV gear over HDMI. I tried UHD Movies in True ATMOS with both an LG 4K OLED and a Samsung 8K LED and with an Arcam ATMOS AV-Preamp and with a Marantz ATMOS AVR. I have much better luck sending sound via USB-C to my Audient Oria. So, since you are talking about AppleTV and not something that actually supports True ATMOS, then maybe you could make it work. In the end, I decided only to use the Mac Mini M4 with BACCH and Dolby Reference Player on it for music, not video. I use an Nvidia Shield for video. Let me know if you figure out something else!
Sounds like there were a few snags with the BACCH SP AFIO in his system, so Shane is holding off on his final thoughts until he first tries the Baach Mac.
His final thoughts should be interesting as his reference DAC is a Playback designs.
Well I am eight minutes older now. I guess we wait some months more and hear how it went. Sounds like he is getting set-up advice now.