Super helpful link. I think that may be a possible solution. I’ll play around with it tomorrow. Fingers crossed.

Thank you, again!

I cannot thank you enough for taking the time to type all this out. It’s infuriating to think that these salespeople recommended these together. I had no clue the blue sound node was also a DAC. You’ve possibly saved us a ton of money and headache. It was around $1500. I’ll show him this discussion tomorrow and go back to the store to get their explanation. Seems to be some predatory sales tactics happening.

The eARC HMDI makes a ton of sense. If we were to play to the TV via eARC to the node, there shouldn’t be any depreciation of the audio file as it’s relayed through the TV? Maintaining MQA seems to be my dad’s primary concern, so I’d like to be able to reassure him, if possible.

I’m learning a ton! This has been a pleasure to bond with my dad over, so I can’t thank you enough for aiding with that.

Possibly, but the room layout makes it a bit tricky without running a super long cable around it. I’m leaving that option until we tease out the potential to mirror the video. It’s a good suggestion though. Thank you!

Thanks, this is very helpful. I’ll try to do the selecting from the tidal app tomorrow via wifi. So, if we connect them via wifi, that should leave us the option of mirroring the macbook screen to the TV so that we can watch the music video as well? Am I understanding that correctly?

Wow, the audio store recommended us to buy the DAC and the Node same day. You’re telling me they recommended two incompatible and redundant devices? A return may be in order…