As I have DSP speakers I obviously do not want to go the analogue route. Waiting for Meridian to come with a solution is also not really a viable solution, unless you have extreme patience. Since I am already waiting for a year, I have also passed that station ... so what are the possibilities?

Well, for starters I was thinking of adding 3 times SPDIF outputs to my HD-A1. I checked with a 'hardware-guy' and he said this should be no problem. I have asked him for the costs of such a solution, so I hope that I know this soon. I was planning to connect those outputs to the 2nd inputs of the DSP speakers, leaving the original setup as it is.

But this got me thinking ... maybe we can do the same with a receiver that does support HDMI. Onkyo has the TX-SR605 coming, and it features everything I want.

So my question: are there more people interested in such solution? Because then it would be interesting for the hardware boys to produce such an output board.

Please let me know what you think of this idea!