Audio Distribution

[Gary_Cardinale]

I am playing one of the Tidal Masters through an Oppo 205. The entire signal path is purple and says enhanced except for the audio distribution which is blue. When I click on this it says it is being distributed to multiple outputs. Should this be blue or have I configured something wrong.

[Rugby (aka Daniel or Big Dan)]

From another thread about the same topic:

Signal path: Audio Distribution

Yeah, the audio distribution component is part of the Oppo. It’s the subsystem that splits the stream for all of the different outputs and possibly does some output specific processing. This topology was judged too complex/variable/situation-dependent to make explicit in signal path–however, their quality indicator (lossless or enhanced) should accurately reflect whether processing is happening in the path to the high quality analog outs on the back. This will vary based on how you have the de…