AragonStageOne? Other processors? Bass Management?

I recently did quite a bit of research on the subject...
The Aragon does do bass managment for everything expect
the 6ch analog bypass. One unique thing is the Aragon also
does bass managment on its analog pass thru for 2ch which
could be very benifical for someone without "full range"
speakers.

The bad news is it doesnt have balanced in/outs.

The Krell is a nice unit also. It does have balanced in/outs
but does not have bass managment for analog pass thru. It
does however have an EQ for all signals that come in digital
and could be usefull for room tuning.

I believe the best performance you could get is with the Aragon running an outboard DAC between your CD source and
the Aragon. Or if you have a good CD source go right into
analog pass thru. A good outboard DAC will perform miracles.

And any SACD or DVD-A worth buying should have full bass
managment built in. Most of them do now.

As far as bass managment most PRE/PROS will handle that
for the dolby digital/dts ect... The one you mentioned will.

Good luck.. its a PRE/PRO jungle out there!

I want to clarify something. When i was speaking of best
sound using analog pass thru with a DAC... That is for 2ch playback. I kinda got off track on my last post.

Most SACD and DVD-A players will allow you to set your
speakers to small and pass LF to sub. The new Pioneer
universal player, The Yamaha DVD-920(I have one) and some of the more pricey ones do have the ability to do so. If
not you can use a Outlaw bass manager.
The AVM-20 is the only PRE/PRO (I know of) that will take
the 6ch input from a SACD or DVD-A and "digitize" it so
bass managment can be achived. This is at the cost of another A to D conversion of course.

Hope this helps...