Missing a niche market?

[bandphan]

I mean give me the feature set of the pioneer 1020, cut the amps and give me preouts. I refuse to believe there is no market for something like that. Bandphan I think you should make it happen.....make it happen Bandphan!

One can be built for your liking. You build computers now then and this wouldnt be much different IMO if your gear is all up to snuff and doesnt need a higher end prepro, buying an avr for a prepro is just fine. If you have a amp for your mains (and center if allowed) upgrading a avr evey 2-3 years for 5-6 hundred dollars seems ok in the hobby. This hobby isnt a whole in the pocket hobby when compared to something like offshore fishing I enjoy my music every day and it doesnt cost me $600 in gas

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

Oh, yeah, SHOCK could just build a new HTPC with nice sound cards for 7.1 analog output and just use the HTPC as the Pre-Pro.

 

[Shock]

Oh, yeah, SHOCK could just build a new HTPC with nice sound cards for 7.1 analog output and just use the HTPC as the Pre-Pro.

I've been looking for a sound card that can decode TrueHD and DTS HD and pass it over analog and have yet to find one. I can find them that will output them over HDMI but that doesn't do me any good.

I have a perfectly good Athlon 64 3000+ system with a x800xl card in it that would work pretty well as a HTPC. Crappy thing is the x800xl is AGP and finding a socket 754 mATX motherboard nowadays is like pulling teeth.

You've inspired me and I'm going to check out how much it would cost to make a HTPC with all the fixin's. I'll make a post in after I've completed it.

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

I've been looking for a sound card that can decode TrueHD and DTS HD and pass it over analog and have yet to find one.

What?

You have not heard of the Asus Xonar Sound Card?

It can decode TrueHD/DTS-HD & pass that via Analog 7.1.

Just don't use a Gigabyte MB because I tried one and it didn't work. But it worked just fine with my Asus MB.

http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=QY0Ud4MG0DMfXNiQ&templete=2