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When I want to play music from a laptop
do I better go via USB to an external DAC or via HDMI?
USB transmits data, audio signals as such can't be USB. HDMI, on the other hand, has multiple channels for pure audio transmission. Therefore only HDMI will work.
Another alternative would be the laptop's headphone output.
Why do I think I go to an external DAC via USB?
Because he can?! You never wrote what it is like a DAC, how you used it before… I can't read minds yet. And you speculate on the stock exchange, and not at Girlfriend.
The question is.
It says what you want, whether the DAC can do that, is still nowhere. I assumed a commercially available amplifier. I don't sit in your room with you and see the device.
It doesn't say what I want, but what options I consider for digital transmission. Then why didn't you start with what is in the question instead of thinking up something that COULD be?
