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How to get 5.1 digital source into analog pre-amp

Hi all. I've been stymied thinking about this and thought I would tap into the expertise on a-gon....

Suppose you have a great analog pre-amp with multiple 6 channel analog inputs. As sources you have a great universal disc player with great DACs that you are sending to the pre-amp via the player's analog outputs. Then suppose your second source is a digital satellite receiver with only digital outputs for multi-channel sound. What can you do to get the sound in multi-channel into the analog pre-amp, short of buying a cheap AV receiver and using its digital in and its pre-outs (or would this even work)?

Is there such a thing as a decent sounding stand alone multi-channel DAC?

Thanks for the help!

--dan
dgaylin
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kr4
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Aside from professional/studio devices, the only ones are discontinued or cheap. For that very purpose, I use a Technics SH-AC500D which is good enough for that task but there are others that might do.

Kal
sogood51
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The Technics that Kal mentioned, Onkyo ED-301 (I have one of these), and I think Sony had something, although I don't recall that model. Of course these are all old units...long ago discontinued, you can find them at Ebay sometimes.

Dave
avguygeorge
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I used the MSB;sorry I can't remember the model #. This was thee swiss army knife of digital processors.Coax or toslinc in;--pcm-out--(It had a digital out that you could hook up to a 2ch dac.)---Like everybody says--old. I think near 10 years 'old'.
I think I had to have this msb, to get dts from lazer disk.
I think that was because my processor Citation 7.0 didn't have digital inputs---as I remember
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