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In Reply to: RE: So, do I really need an HT receiver? posted by dvb on September 01, 2010 at 17:15:10

I can't afford one with the quality of my 2-channels and so I drive my sub and rear stereo amp from the Oppo directly when listening to discs, especially movies. TV is stereo only in my combo set up.

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RE: No. - dvb 18:40:49 09/14/10 (1)
There may yet be an advantage to sticking with 2 channel - I can feed the DSD/ SACD to it by analogue. I'm having a heck of time trying to identify with any certainty a Receiver that will receive the DSD signal by HDMI, but not process it into PCM.

Older (last year's!) receivers seemed to that, but the incoming receivers, including Marantz, seem to be abandoning the format.
- Good point. - cfraser 11:32:35 09/15/10 (0)
  And frankly I doubt most of the AVRs under ~$5k would enable you to tell the difference anyway. Probably most are converting DSD to LPCM somewhere, certainly if any processing (Audyssey etc.) is used. I would bet not too many mainstream AVRs have a "direct" DSD to DAC to preamp mode. Now you have got me interested in finding out what my (older) Denon AVR does, even though I don't play normally DSD through it (use the BDP-83's DSD-> DAC output into a 2ch pre).

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