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Originally Posted by jgarnet
Emmodad,
This is great news I think. I bought something which looks almost identical to this atlona unit. I've never even tried it but the unit I have is from Ambery Corp - model no. AU HDMICP, bought from allaboutadapters. Everything I've read about this model on other forums suggests that it will NOT extract 24/192...
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when i was recently researching approx. 10 different hardware solutions for HDMI audio extraction (most but not all based on a small number of Chinese ODM board designs), i directly contacted some of those board design companies as well as end-product manufacturers to see if they could provide confirmation of 24/192 2-channel capability.
most were very candid, one of the Chinese ODMs even replied that they know the chip used was capable of providing 24/192 but that they had no way to test and had only specified the product up to 24/96. i aimed them at Oppo, some 24/192 DVD-As and the NYA Blu-rays...
i had also noticed 4 different products (including the Ambery and its clones) which, silkscreening aside, looked identical to the HD-570. more research showed what seemed to be a common design from a Taiwan ODM called Cypress Technology. contact with all of the different vendors seemed to imply that they were all CT-based designs.
except atlona, who stated quite openly that while the case / physical design was purchased from CT, the internals were an atlona design with some specific atlona-developed processing ie EDID handling and audio/video signal reclocking.
can only say that my brief experience with an amberey did not yield 100% stable lock with 24/192, but 24/96 was fine. the atlona was OK by itself on 2-channel 24/192, but i had occasional dropouts depending on what the HD-570's HDMI output was connected to (ie what was providing the HDCP handshake: an HDfury, some different TVs and LCD monitors...).
i currently have the the HD-570 as well as several other HDMI audio extractors all hooked up (ie their HDMI outputs) to an atlona 4x2 HDMI switch which then feeds an HDfury and a TV. HD-570 is rock-solid stable in this setup; i recall absolutely zero glitches in months of listening to 24/192 sources from DVD-A and Blu-ray (ie Neil Young Archives)