advantages using HDMI vs USB

[Kal Rubinson]

3 hours ago, marioed said:

As far as I know the the advantage of using HDMI vs USB is that HDMI can carry multi-channel music which I don't think usb can for most dacs.

USB carries multichannel music just fine with any multichannel USB DAC I know of.  This is not an issue at all.

[Kal Rubinson]

3 hours ago, gellie said:

Thanks all. Using USB and have had ZERO drops playing 192/24 files. . I think HDMI has way to many "handshake issues". Especially on my Oppo 105. Which is also connected to my Marantz SR7005.

Let's up the ante.  I can play 6 channel DSD256 and PCM 24/352.8 over USB without any problems.