Re: Why buy more than a CDP-CX220?

I still buy the cheapest players, or the lowest model which has text (e.g. CX220). I then add digital outputs to the players which don't have them and run them all into a homebuilt (may soon be for sale :) ) digital input selector. This then runs to a high-quality Crystal CS4390 DAC into the stereo system. MP3s from the computer are also fed digitally into the same input selector. The point here is this-

Why spend a lot of $$$ on high quality audio sections for each of your players when you only listen to one at a time? It makes more sense to me to have one really good DAC and just feed all of your inputs into it.

Out of curiosity, how many people would be interested in such a digital audio crosspoint switch? Here are some tenative specs:

* Supports up to 8 optical and 8 coaxial inputs (16 independent inputs)

(you would specify how many of each you want added to the back panel)

* up to 4 inpendent pairs of optical and coaxial outputs selected from the 16 inputs
* controllable by IR remote, S-Link input, or direct RS-232 computer connection
* nonvolatile memory stores the input state even when power is removed
* I may build a more advanced version which can autodetect when a new device starts playing and switch inputs, do SCMS copy bit stripping, and possibly mix muliple inputs (expensive!)

Colby

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