Buckle-meister said:
Well, what would make it so difficult to build an EQ that simply accepted a coaxial or optical digital cable and decoded the multichannel stream? It's no more than any receiver currently does. In addition, some/many receivers already do EQ in the digital domain (as far as I am aware), so this is hardly pushing the boat out either.
I must be missing something here.
Regards
That would work as well, but you would need an multichannel digital equalizer. One of the Alesis digital equalizers is 8 channel and I believe takes adat in. To be honest I think what annoys me about this is that it is obvious how it should have been implemented, if the kids who make pro gear had come up w/ dolby/dts that is how everything would have been implemented but the analogue only out was a design decision from the get-go, because you are right its "hardly pushing the boat out either". Its also why DVD-A also has the same handicaps.
I use the DEQ currently for room equalization for 2 channel sound and have been thinking of extending the idea for a full fledged 5(7).1 system. Equalization in receivers must be done internally (along the digital path) as you say.
Perhaps it doesn't matter in the end, 24/96 is a pretty high rate of sampling.
Honestly I think the way to go is replace the dvd-player w/ a computer, let that do the decoding (and perhaps equalize/delay it) and then send it out.