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blu ray coax out

If I run Coax out from a blu ray player to a dac, with the player decoding the lossless formats (dolby true hd/dts master audio) to PCM, to a 2 channel system (the 5.1 mixes downmixed to 2 channel), will the dac receive the lossless tracks or the lossy core?  And a related question: will the audio be down converted from 24/48 to 16/48?  thank you     
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erik_squires
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You need to tell your blu ray to output PCM and downmix. Your DAC won't know how to handle it. 

If you run the coax out to a HT receiver you can do 5.1 or 7.1 but you are limited to the DVD specs. 

I'm not sure how lossy it will be either way. 
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