Hi,
A audiophile friend of mine made this suggestion to me.
I am upgrading my home theater from DVI to HDMI inputs. I have no HDMI inputs on my system now. Since I have the ML Vantage speakers, I don't want to put garbage into it just because I need HDMI. So I was looking at Classe and Krell amongst other pre/pro gear. My friend said to get a High end digital processor/digital media source and hook it directly to the amplifiers and forgo the pre/processor altogether. So I am looking at an Exemplar t-105. Basically it's a modified OPPO 105 blu ray player. So in the price range of a Classe SSP-800 ($10,000), plus $1200 for the OPPO without the mods, thats a big chunk of change. The hot rodded OPPO from Exemplar costs about $5000. So for half the money I get better performance than running it through a preamp/processor.
Has anyone had experience with doing something like this?
Joe
A audiophile friend of mine made this suggestion to me.
I am upgrading my home theater from DVI to HDMI inputs. I have no HDMI inputs on my system now. Since I have the ML Vantage speakers, I don't want to put garbage into it just because I need HDMI. So I was looking at Classe and Krell amongst other pre/pro gear. My friend said to get a High end digital processor/digital media source and hook it directly to the amplifiers and forgo the pre/processor altogether. So I am looking at an Exemplar t-105. Basically it's a modified OPPO 105 blu ray player. So in the price range of a Classe SSP-800 ($10,000), plus $1200 for the OPPO without the mods, thats a big chunk of change. The hot rodded OPPO from Exemplar costs about $5000. So for half the money I get better performance than running it through a preamp/processor.
Has anyone had experience with doing something like this?
Joe