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08-23-2005, 05:25 PM
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amp-only w/digital input ... does one exist?
hi all -
a friend was asking if a stand-alone amp existed that had an optical input. afaik, one does not ... but wasn't sure.
does anybody know of one? oh yeah, it has to be inexpensive. 
thx!
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08-23-2005, 10:43 PM
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by "stand-alone" do you mean power-amp? if so, how would the amp decode the digital signals?
there are the TacT digital amplifiers that have digital inputs, but they are expensive and don't say if they are optical. I guess there should be a couple.
the same digital Equibit amps are powering the Panasonic XR series, so you might want to take a look at them (Panasonic XR55, XR70)
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08-23-2005, 10:48 PM
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by "stand-alone" do you mean power-amp? if so, how would the amp decode the digital signals?
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lol ... that's a good point and one i didn't even think of. no wonder they don't exist.
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08-24-2005, 02:48 AM
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Also, AV123 are working on a cheap "fully digital integrated amp" called X-Empower (40W, $69 iirc, since the forum seems to be down when I posted this)
I can only guess "fully digital" means that it will take a digital input, and that is directly converted to PWM (instead of a DAC stage)
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08-28-2005, 06:50 PM
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Sony use to sell 'integrated amps' with digital inputs.
I had one of their ES cd players that had it's own volume control and could go straight into a amp.
The old "direct is better" concept.
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08-28-2005, 07:10 PM
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I don't know how it works, but it's digital and it requires a separate volume control....
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08-28-2005, 11:24 PM
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The Yamaha takes an analogue signal (balanced or unbalanced) and amplifies it. A preamp would still be required.
Sharp made an amplifier based on direct stream digital--it connected, via proprietary means, to a sacd transport. But it was still an integrated amplifier,
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