Basicly, the stereo bypass mode allows you to bypass the digital processing of analog stereo inputs. If you had a DVD player or CD player with very good DACs and wanted to use the player's DACs instead of the 950's, you would connect the player's analog audio output to the 950 and then choose "stereo bypass" when using that input to bypass the analog-to-digital conversion, digital processing, and digital-to-analog conversion applied normally to all stereo analog inputs.

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