Custom Reactor and Dante

[Snoopy8]

1) any other options for the optical > Dante conversion?

Besides the Micromedia product, there is the Audinate product, which you purchase directly from Devialet (professional@devialet.com)

https://www.audinate.com/products/dante-...al-adapter

There is a Radio Labs adaptor

https://www.markertek.com/product/rdl-sf...-interface

2) the end game is a decoder to get 7.1 out of the optical source, to Dante. I’ve not seen anything reasonable for this yet. Some people have decided a surround signal, then connected Dante adapters to the analogue outputs for all of the channels. That seems mad. You should just be able to get one box that received optical or HDMI, and makes all of the channels available as Dante channels. Ideally including the .1 so you can have 7.7!

Dante comes from the prod audio world and is expensive.  There is the JBl SDP-55
https://www.jblsynthesis.com/products/el...P-55-.html