Strange one this... because it used to work until yesterday.
Denon DVD1730 Coax out to Hegel HD12 DAC Coax. The audio via coax is all broken up and intermittent. Having pulled the DVD player out of the cabinet and reconnected it all (except the HDMI cable, hmmmm) it worked fine. Thought it was a faulty coax cable which worked ok straightened out but it turns out that when the HDMI cable is connected it causes the coax signal to go super crackly / intermittent.
I've tried a different coax cable, power lead, HDMI cable, etc. and fiddled with the limited DVD player settings (Audio HDMI or Analogue makes zero difference even if it's not trying to output audio over HDMI). It's even when the HDMI cable touches the case or the edge of the socket on the player it knackers the coax signal. It works fine through Optical output/input, unsurprisingly. The DAC from PC (Optical or USB) is fine too.
Final strange thing: When I replicate the connections to my old Firestone Spitfire DAC it all works ok, i.e. with the HDMI lead connected. Maybe the superior resolution HEGEL is being more fussy with the signal?
So, DAC or DVD-player fault? What? Why? How?
Denon DVD1730 Coax out to Hegel HD12 DAC Coax. The audio via coax is all broken up and intermittent. Having pulled the DVD player out of the cabinet and reconnected it all (except the HDMI cable, hmmmm) it worked fine. Thought it was a faulty coax cable which worked ok straightened out but it turns out that when the HDMI cable is connected it causes the coax signal to go super crackly / intermittent.
I've tried a different coax cable, power lead, HDMI cable, etc. and fiddled with the limited DVD player settings (Audio HDMI or Analogue makes zero difference even if it's not trying to output audio over HDMI). It's even when the HDMI cable touches the case or the edge of the socket on the player it knackers the coax signal. It works fine through Optical output/input, unsurprisingly. The DAC from PC (Optical or USB) is fine too.
Final strange thing: When I replicate the connections to my old Firestone Spitfire DAC it all works ok, i.e. with the HDMI lead connected. Maybe the superior resolution HEGEL is being more fussy with the signal?
So, DAC or DVD-player fault? What? Why? How?