In article
,
Bob Villa wrote:

Does this help explain anything? "Generally, in an all digital train,
you would use a high quality (NOT
monster) HDMI interface, especially at higher resolutions, to avoid D/
A-A/D
loss. "
Simply...no!

Sure it does. Read the subject line. Jon's advice is to keep a digital
signal digital all the way through, IOW stay with HDMI. Changing digital
to analog and then analog back to digital will degrade the signal.