Lyngdorf MP-50 Alternative

You can find a full list of brands that support Dirac in a surround sound processor on the Dirac Live downloads page. Dirac is an outstanding solution and one that I recommend.

Past Dirac, I would recommend the Trinnov Altitude16. This offers best-in-class room + speaker optimization in addition to a whole bunch of other features you'd likely benefit from in both surround sound and 2-channel. Plus it has outstanding analog sound quality, often considered best (and in my opinion best) among its competitors. It also has 2-channel digital output so you can use it with an external 2-channel DAC.

I’m just wondering what’s the point of using an external DAC if you’re using it with room correction?

@soix one may prefer the sound of the external 2-channel DAC for stereo music playback over the analog output of the surround sound processor.

@soix the OP is looking for a surround sound processor that has room correction and digital output, in order to put the outboard 2-channel DAC after the room correction. So there would be no ADC.

The Trinnov Altitude surround sound processor does have this feature, as well as multiple presets so you can create both a surround sound optimizer setting as well as a 2-channel optimizer setting that you can switch between at the touch of a button.

@soix I guess you could interpret wanting analog inputs means the request to use an external DAC is as an input into the SSP, but I read them as separate. It wasn't explicitly stated that the additional "equipment with external DAC" was going to be used as an input into the SSP.

As usually a 2-channel system is placed after a HT system, and HT bypass is engaged on the 2-channel system when you are in HT mode. And when doing 2-channel playback most of your HT stuff is turned off and the 2-channel system is "fully on".

@soix that’s why I recommended the Trinnov Altitude. It is a surround sound processor that offers very powerful and flexible room correction (room + speaker via the Trinnov Optimizer), has analog inputs, and both analog and digital outputs. The Trinnov Optimizer can be executed using either the analog outputs, or the digital output to a whole other stack of electronics including a stereo DAC. Multiple presets means you can save different settings for when you are playing back surround sound (either with the analog outputs or with most analog and two channels digital) and when you are playing back stereo (again, either with the analog outputs or with a two channel digital output).

Alternatively, the Altitude can also perform ADC and run the optimizer on the analog inputs as well. The Optimizer can also be turned off.

The Trinnov Altitude will do everything requested (including eARC and HDMI 2.1). And it will sound outstanding.