Time alignment would be nice, but it starts to make things very complicated. If the signal can be kept all analog, I think this product would have more of a chance to succeed. Once it goes digital, it basically becomes a multi-channel preamp/processor with more inputs. The original thought, on my part, was to keep things as much in the analog side as possible once the downconversion from either hi-res PCM or DSD had taken place.

Now if we can get stereo subs....