DVD-A Question

You could send a CD-quality, 2-channel digital stream to your Levinson, but that would not be the DVD-A you're paying for. If you search hard enough, you might find one that passes a 96Khz, 2-channel PCM digital signal which, presumably, the Levinson can accept. There is no player in the world that passes a multichannel, full-bandwidth signal digitally out of a player, for copyright reasons. -Kirk

Actually, I believe that no DVD-A disc will allow for the passing of any 24/96 digital signal--that's my main complaint about DVD-A, you're stuck with the DAC in the player for 24/96 playback.

I think that MSB Technology has some sort of special digital output that they can install into DVDA players that will output 24/192 audio. I heard this system hooked up to one of their Platinum DACs and it sounded pretty good.

Reprince, I believe some players will out-put DVD A 24/96 but I'm not aware of any players that will out put DVD Audio 24/192, yet .

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