There are are no HDMI receiver cards available. Getting external multi-channel into the PC is an unsolved challenge. Had no problem software decoding DSD, etc. The hardware is just a DIY PC with an old i7 (it is hardly under any load for any of this so I suspect even a current generation i3 will work). I am not sure how much interest there is in replicating such a set up here to make it worthwhile. I was going to write up some notes on how to do this but it can be quite an undertaking to describe it in a fool-proof way. So you can set it up for 5.2 but not 7.2. Maximum 8 channels total though for the PCM output. Until Dirac bass management is available for PC, the bass management here works fine to integrate a sub. With REW based EQ I was able to get sounds very good almost as good as ARC but Dirac has some magic that makes it noticeably better. An older AVR is also an alternate solution if it has pre-outs but you would have to buy an expensive DIrac hardware box or do more than half of the work above to get it to work in the PC for multi-channel sound. Right now, they are either too expensive with features I don't need or have bare minimum features + lots of glitches and need multiple external boxes to get the full function as above. I have decided to stay with this until a decent pre/pro unit comes into market at a sensible price. There are no latency issues for lip sync that I have encountered. Crossover, delay and volume can be set for each channel independently to align phase/balance. But otherwise works very well from 2.0 to 7.1, integrating with your favorite media player that just works as long as it plays to a selected/default sound device sending PCM and the DSP settings/processing apply to all of them. It is really not a satisfactory replacement for an AVR because you cannot have a convenient IR remote for everything, content with DRM can be a problem and the new codecs with more than 8-ch are out of the scope. Using Voicemeeter, Equalizer APO and VSTHost.
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