I've been having this weird sound issue, where in the content if it's just ambient sound or overall silent scenes the output completely cuts out. Sometimes it isn't a big deal, but most of the times it's very apparent. I think it may have to do with my setup, but I'm not sure (could be hardware fault), so hopefully someone here can help me with this.
At the moment my sound setup is the following:
Nvidia shield -> hdmi cable -> TV -> headphone output 3.5mm to RCA cable -> amp (Yamaha A-S701)
The TV is one of those cheap Toshiba, so I don't know if that can affect the audio quality. I already tried replacing the hdmi cable, but that didn't work. I can always try to replace the 3.5mm to RCA cable, that could be at fault, but since I don't understand much about audio maybe there's something in this setup that's clearly wrong? Should I try to get one of those hdmi splitters and connect through optical (the amp has optical input) so it doesn't go through the TV?
Help is appreciated, thanks!
I can't speak specifically to your issue as I have never heard experienced it.
But I have an older Cambridge Audio receiver that doesn't have HDMI input and I use one of those boxes that takes the HDMI from the Shield outputs the video to my TV over HDMI and outputs the audio to my receiver over optical, and it works great.
In my case this gives me 5.1 audio, in your case your amp is still only 2 channels, but atleast it would be a digital signal and not analog.