HT Proc. with 5.1 analog in, under 1k, good sound?

Goat,
You can work around the not remembering which connection part if you use a universal remote as it will cycle through the inputs in a fixed order. You can have the universal remote hit the dvd input button twice to get to the second input of the dvd. I use a harmony remote with great success. This is the only real quirk with the cinema 6 that I know of. The audio refinement has 4 analog and 4 digital inputs and it uses whichever is connected to each input, but it cycles through analog 1 though 4 and then digital 1 through 4.
Hope this helps,
Mark

Thanks Mark,

I do have a universal remote (Universal Remote brand) so I think I'd be able to rig that up with a macro.

It would be great if you could double check about the DPL II on an analog input. It that works, then this unit looks like a no brainer. I'm still waiting to hear back from the seller.

I found this in a forum post: "At first, I also thought that the inputs were strictly bypass, but after fooling around with it, you can disable the "direct" function and should be able to engage surround processing for analog sources."

So it seems the reviewer was wrong about this.

http://www.audioholics.com/reviews/processors/cary-cinema-6
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Take a look at www.emotiva.com. They dropped the price of their best processor to about $800. I suspect they are clearing it out for a new model. I did some research on this and the consensus from a few users was that it is a very good unit. Unlike the Outlaw, which both people who responded to my inquires said was fatiguing after awhile.

Regalma1 - The emotiva looks awesome. Apparently it is built around the same architecture as the Sunfire. For $900 new, it has everything that I'm looking for, though I have to admit cosmetics-wise I prefer the Cary.

If it doesn't work out with the Cary, I'll probably end up picking one of these up new.