Hi I'm in the market for this kinda solution as well, wanting to connect my apple tv, to lg tv, then to studio monitors, still pretty unsure whats the best way here,
want to ask you, when using airplay from apple tv to the cxn v2, then from that, optical out to external dac,
will i still be able to control volume of apple tv using apple tv remote?
i figured maybe not, so I'm still scratching my head on how to achieve my dream connection, with only one single remote!
By using the optical out you will bypass the internal DAC of the CXN V2.
I tried this with AirPlay - Cxn V2 - optical out to the Cxa81 and you won't be able to use the volume control.
By using the analoge out (XLR and RCA) it will work. But only if you set the cxn V2 into pre-amp mode or connect the 12volt control bus
The apple TV won't be able to control studio Monitors through a optical connection.
The cxn V2 is only able to do that because it's a pre-amp + has a control bus Trigger.
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