@reubent Your explanation makes great sense, worded well and I won’t forget it anytime soon, thanks. The words bit stripping did come to mind, I thought that will be another question. I see now I was wrong. What I remember of the plan was, using an integrated amp in a home theater set up.
Turns out, the Oppo105 is not a bit stripper and it was suggested to look for a high end pre/pro instead, by the dealer.
The details left me, but, I did invest in a HT bypass preamp.
I was concerned with the whole lowering resolution part and now I have more search words to investigate this further. Any websites that you can point to? Earlier today, bit stripping didn’t have many results.
Again, thanks for the explanation.