Well, I think I might settle for Dirac Live with a DDRC-88A with analog interfaces AFTER the pre/pro. Reviews suggest the extra A/D D/A step is inaudible and this is the only possible path to Atmos in the future.


It eliminates the need for a separate HDMI switch and trying to use the pre/pro in a "weird" way as well as the need for a separate bitstream audio decoder with LPCM output.

That said, I really do wish pre/pros would support a digital processing loop in some manner.