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YouTube video music

Listen/watch music stream and now they go through my avr and then onto a smart tv. I listen to these vids in stereo mode, and they sound good.

I have a analogue stereo preamp.  Any creative way to have the music flow thru this preamp to tak advantage of preamp benefits, or is this strictly a digital signal, although it becomes analogue before it leaves avr to reach speakers. 
I have a standalone dac but no hdmi port. Only usb.

thanks
emergingsoul
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Ah, no.  The AppleTV youtube app suffers the same lossy / compressed / low quality audio just like the Roku / AmazonFire / Nvidia streamers.  The video quality on these is also crap.  Anything that uses the GooglePlay Youtube streaming app is very poor quality.

Just switching over to a Mac Mini (full computer OS with Safari web browser) is HUGELY better for youtube videos.
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auxinput
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cleeds - if you scroll back and read carefully, you will see that I never said anything good about "streaming from AppleTV".  That comment was from emergingsoul.

My statements have always indicated a computer with full operating system and web browser.  I actually have a friend who had bad youtube quality from his AppleTV which confused him because playing back normal iTunes burned from CD through the AppleTV was just fine.
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cleeds
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cleeds - if you scroll back and read carefully, you will see ... That comment was from emergingsoul.
Oops, you are correct! My mistake. Sorry! I’ve deleted the post, rather than create more confusion.
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