Questions about connecting NUC directly to a receiver

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@dcw96161 – I went through this process fairly recently. For me, HDA Intel PCH HDMI Zone 0 worked for NUC+ROCK+Roon --> HDMI --> Marantz Receiver. I may have had to restart the receiver and NUC a couple of times.

And here’s a thread I started at that time, in case you haven’t seen it and there’s anything you find useful in there:

NUC+ROCK: Any way to use more than one of the HDA Intel PCH HDMI Zones..?

I’ve just set up a NUC8i7BEH with ROCK. It’s physically connected via HDMI to a Marantz Pre/Pro. As others have noted, even though there is only one HDMI output on the NUC, there are multiple HDMI audio zones that show up in Settings>Audio. Prior threads I found are HDA Intel PCH HDMI Zone, Enabling Audio Options on the NUC, and An HDMI Curiosity Question. In my case, the zones look like this: [IMG_7655.PNG] When I ran my Core on a Windows 10 laptop (until just a few days ago), I ended u…