The mobo does have analog out, but if I go this route I am forced to go through the onboard graphics and it will downsample to 16 bit before sending it to the analog outs. I do not think there is a way around this.

Sounds like I can continue to do optical out though. Thats good news.

What player did you end up going with?

Fred

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