Intensity

[Simon Blackledge]

Fine.. but you have your answer.. you need a soloution.

I could suggest you get an HDMI> component box.. this will split the audio from video for you.

“Penello – you explain your suggesting by sending me to a general website where I’m supposed to filter through hundreds of pages about – AV guys slipping sync? Do me a favor, don’t respond to my posts. You’re not helpful and you’re attitude is rude.”

…think it’s called doing your research!

[Dale Launer]

An HDMI component box would work – but that’s going to cost about 300 bucks. The Intensity Pro is less – a hundred bucks more and has both analog and digital breakout. And a simpler solution.

So I’m just gonna trade up.

[Dale Launer]

“…think it’s called doing your research!”

Not exactly – if you send me to a website where I’m sifting through page after page looking for an answer to a question you posed (you in essence are answering a question with a question by sending me on this quest) – so I end up doing your research. If you actually have the answer, simply post it. That’s what makes forums helpful.

[Simon Blackledge]

Fair point.. a bit like “i know a man who knows a man..”

I just knew there was something, couldn’t remember the name.

anyway glad ya sorted,

p

[Dale Launer]

The standard Intensity card uses the audio out of the HDMI cable – meaning you use the BM DAC – which can be better.

So I took back the standard Intensity, took the restocking charge hit and got the Pro. Now it’s up and running using the SPDIF breakout cable into a nice DAC. However, the breakout cable they provide looks cheap, feels cheap, and doesn’t work with the SPDIF very well – in fact if you touch it or jiggle it, it will lose signal, or the signal will be very distorted (with a mis-matching impedence like sound – nasty crackling distortion on top of transiets.)

I’m assuming this is an anomaly. I will have to get another cable.