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I have a 561 (still works fine after 19 years) with a 5.1 analog speaker set up (audio labs 8000 series power amps and Kef Q series speakers).
I now have a spare 2 channel power amp and pair of speakers, I was wondering if I can decode the digital speaker output from the 561 to get a 7 speaker set up, or can I only drive DSP speakers from the digital speaker output?
Thanks
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You could decode it but, the digital outputs are not subject to volume control so keeping the volume synced would be a problem.
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You could use a 518 with the volume set to master between the 561 digital output and the DAC, join together with a C5 comms lead and it will track the volume.
I did this with a 568 a long time ago and it worked fine, limited to 48kHz though.
ATB,
Steve
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Just thought, if you were to go to the trouble of adding a 518, you could just buy a 568 and sell the 561; the 568 has 8 analogue outputs.
ATB,
Steve
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Thanks for your advice.
Looks like I will stick with things as they are, especially as it seems the serial port is being uncommunicative
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