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Hi,

Has anyone here used an external DAC such as the Benchmark DAC, Lavry DA 10 or any other DAC to bypass Meridian's internal DAC's, specifically 568.2?

I have a Lavry DA10 D-A converter, which was not used in my hi-fi system prior to the purchase of the 568.2MM, I was wondering if I could integrate the DA10 with the Meridian?

From what I've read is that unless you enable the speakers for DSP, the l/R main digital outs are disabled, as well as encrypted?

I noticed the 568.2MM has a digital bypass and was wondering what is the exact function of this? I have scoured the forums but couldn't really get a definitive answer.

Is the purpose of the bypass to bypass internal DAC's? If from w hat I have read about the someone using an 861 and used the bypass into 568, can this be used to feed to output of the bypass in the Lavry DA-10, whic hare then fed into amplifiers? What channels are actually passed through the Digital Bypass and where is this configured? Or have I got the definition of the bypass completely wrong and serves a different purpose?

What I am hoping to achieve is to bypass the 568's front L/R main dacs and instead pass the signal into the Lavry.

The Lavry DA10 has XLR and SPDIF and optical and coax digital input and balanced analogue outputs. I have cables to convert from XLR to RCA and the Lavry is able to internally convert the blanaced XLR into unbalanced.

I'm also thinking that if the Lavry DA10 is not a workable solution that I will instead use it with the computer for video/audio editing

I'm still new here but would appreciate your help on this matter.

Thanks for you help on advance.:)

Cheers
Mark.