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Not that hard to find. (Plus a heresey.)

208.240.143.196

These are pretty vanilla requirements. Outlaw Audio comes to mind. B&K has such a unit as well.

Here is a high-end heresey: There are plenty of mass market (Sony, HK, Denon, Pioneer, JVC ...) AVRs with pre-outs. Quite a few folks take advantage of the preouts to use these as preamp/processors. Several use 24/96 or even 24/192 DACs, are compatible with other formats as well such as HDCD, Neo etc. Pioneer even applies bass management to 7.1 inputs. Comparred to more rarified audio they are dirt cheap.

Their biggest sonic compromise is stuffing 5-6 channels of amplification in to a single box and hoping that the power supply can "take it". If you use separate power amps this is moot.

The second compromise is that they usually don't have a phono input or the one they have probably won't be up to the standards of you typical vinyl afacianado.

I don't equate HT with high-end audio anyway. This is not snobism on my part. It's my about my taste in films: I spend a lot more time watching "Grand Illusion", "Ninotchka", "Diabolique" (the orginal!), etc. than I do watching "Die Hard (1-2-3)", or "X-man". I will admit, however, that seeing some re-mastered classics like "Singin' in the Rain" or "My Fair Lady" in 2 or 3 channel stereo remasterd in DD on a decent HT setup is fantastic.


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