Using “Apple TV” as music streamer, anyone?

I’m using Museatex idat44 DAC in my system. It has optical and coaxial inputs. I connect the coaxial input to Yamaha YBA-11 bluetooth receiver and inexpensive Android TV via optical input. After living with them for a period, I recognize that it’s time to upgrade the source. I will keep the YBA-11 in place, but the Android TV. Are there people using Apple TV as music streamer? The new generation Apple TVs no longer have optical output, to use it as an audio source, HDMI output port is the only channel to deliver signal. In brief, to connect the Apple TV to my DAC, it requires to connect Apple TV to the Android TV via HDMI first, then, from Android TV to the DAC via optical cable. The question is will the digital audio signal received by the DAC belong to “Apple TV” or “Android TV”? Remember the objective of this attemp is to discontinue the use of Android TV as a digital audio source and switch to Apple TV instead. So if config the system as mentioned, Apple TV —> HDMI —> Android TV —> Optical —> DAC, will it considered to be the upgrade? Finally, is it worth to invest the Apple TV for this purpose?
 
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I have an old Apple TV in a box, but have no experience.

You can certainly use it as a streamer with Apple Music. How you use it with others i am not sure. With the “same” processor as the phones and computers the App on those platforms should port over to AppleTV.

USB into the DAC is a limitation. I expect with no optical out you would need a splitter that separates the audio from the video.

I have a MacMini in the same place you are attempting to use an AppleTV.

dave
 
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I am using the J-Tech HDMI Audio extractor with an Apple TV 4K, supports 4K. I use the Toslink out of the extractor and into my DAC. The setup works fine. One caveat is the the audio sample rate out of the Apple TV and extractor is 48Khz. Therefore no HiRes from Apple Music - 24/96 or higher.


John

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