TV sound

have a search around the menus of your TV/PVR etc, they may have the ability to adjust the lipsync values by the odd millisecond or two.

Noted thanks you. I have found the analogue outputs very good so it will be interesting to see when my new tv, DAC and cables arrive. I will let you know. Many thanks.

Well the new tv is in place and wired up.

The basic sound of the TVs own speakers is very different.

I have now concluded that the TV speaker sound is preferred to my Old Panny.

Using the same home made screened cables through the budget DAC revealed a pretty good sound. Maybe a little smoother and less peaky than I could recall with the old Pannys analogue outputs.

Listened to some sky, BBC, record high impact DR who and extracts f on last years last night of the proms.
I cannot realistically revert back to the old Panny to try as both are screwed on to their respective walls!

I have am trying to get hold of a couple of cables from the loan scheme which should prove an interesting comparison.

I also tried my purse silver reference cables, which too, some installing as the DAC sockets are very close and could not readily get a stable output.
After several failed attempts I was ready to give up and plugged the small power supply in my power HUB rather than direct to the wall and finally got the sound to stabilise with a big of tape to hold the plugs and cables in place.

Overall impressions were of some improvement on non music programmes being rather smoother and more open.
On LNOTPs the differences were a lot more apparent. Scale, dynamics clarity and openness made the presentation far more enjoyable to listen to. Bass was tighter and more powerful. Wonderful organ pipes on 'rule Britannia' and Jerusalem.

Is the optical option viable, most definitely. Is it better than analogue I wouldn't like to say.

Options from here;
1)continue to use a shortened version of my home made cables which does sound very good.
2)use my reference pure silver cables - sound is becoming more engaging the more I listen but the plugs would have to be changed and can I really justify having to spend near the price of an Accession on these for TV use almost certainly not.
3) one of grahams cables, very possible
4) another option from my current supplier.

One other thought I do suspect that plugging the power supply in to my power HUB may well have had some impact too as the scale and power now being seen does reflect the benefits of the HUB.

I will see what happens when Jon gets back re the loan scheme cables and may well switch the power back to the wall socket at some stage to try it there again but a very happy near end result.