I have a sony strdb940 that I use for digital dolby and dts movie decoding.

My 999es DVD player sends a digital bitstream via the electrical coax to the receiver whose preamp outputs feed a set of inputs of a sony tap-9000es 5.1ch preamp.

CD/SACD comes from the analog outputs of the player to another set of inputs on the tap-9000es preamp, requiring 6 analog cables.

This setup uses the receiver to decode the dolby or dts digital bitstream. Another option is to have the 999es DVD player do the dolby/dts decoding and supply an analog output, via 6 cables, to the analog 5.1 input on the receiver.

I would suspect that in my case, the 999es has better dolby/dts decoding than the receiver. Someday, when I am in an adventerous mindset, I will rewire my system and check it out. Right now, beings I am tinkering with the analog output stage on the the 999es, I do not want to change the setup.

Paul

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[This message has been edited by Paul J. Stiles (edited May 18, 2003).]