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Hi,

With the announcement of the very well priced 218, I was wondering/hoping that my G68 may be altered/upgraded to include an analogue bypass so I could enjoy MQA. I also have a 568.2mm. Would it be possible with this unit?

Any suggestions appreciated.

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Could you place an analogue preamp between your G68 and mono amps?
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Yeah right, and feed the 218 and G68 into that. Thanks Tom!


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Use the 218 to do it as it has analog in and out. That would be pretty seemless.


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Beautiful! Thanks Bruce!


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Do we know for sure that the 218 will offer analogue pass-through?


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Good question.

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Not bypass per se but it does have analog input and output. When streaming MQA you would be using its Sooloos endpoint and for everything else, you would switch to the analog input.


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Hi Bruce,
How is this switching achieved?

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This is where we need more details re the 218 please.

Based on the picture in the 218 Zone Controller launched thread it has no separate comms connection or RS232 control connection so presumably the control interfaces are speakerlink in, speakerlink out (back from the master speaker in a very simple two-channel setup), the IR detector and over the network connection (as an 818 can) via Sooloos?


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From one of Bruce's earlier posts it was suggested that what ever your input feed would exit on all output feeds. (At least that's how I took it)

In this scenario:

MQA:
Network to 218 - Output from analogue to Amps (selecting network input on 218)
or

Non MQA:
G68 - Output from analogue into 218 analogue input - analogue out from 218 to amps(selecting analogue input on 218)

A neat solution if the 218 doesn't process the analogue in/out unnecessarily.

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Via IR or IP according to the data sheet.


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