[Jeremy Robins]

I know this thread is old but it came up often in my internet searches so I wanted to post my solution. I ended up purchasing the Arvus AES-2H. It sounds great and is the ideal unit for embedding 5.1/7.1 mixes from your pro interface to a preamp or receiver as a monitoring solution. This takes multiple channels of AES/EBU and embeds them as multiple channels of LPCM to be decoded by your pre/DAC of choice.

He’s a link: https://www.aes-hdmi.com/aes-2h.html

I hope this helps anyone else looking for a similar solution.