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Opinion on Adding Processor to skip buggy AVR HDMI

Hey Audiogon Community,

I bought an Arcam AVR360 earlier in the year, and I love the way it sounds. Unfortunately, its awesome audio performance is completely overshadowed two things:

1. Screen flickers / flaky HDMI
2. Video processor leaves weird screen artifacts (i.e., un-anti-aliased line art / fonts, or noisy MPEG decoding)

That said, I want to keep the amplification part of the amp because that part sounds amazing all the time, and is not buggy.

The AVR has analog RCA inputs on the back that I am hoping I can use to connect a processor to (skipping the AVR's internal processing and HDMI switching)

Does does sound like a crazy idea to anyone? Any red flags you see with doing this? Any suggestions on preamp/processors? I am looking at NAD and Marantz at the moment, and potentially Krell and Rotel.
unctonythetiger

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bobnegi
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Don't know how many HDMI devices you are running through your Arcam,
I run my Blu ray with 7.1 analog out to the processor, sounds wonderfull

That is if your disc player has analog outputs, run all your other stuff through digital coaxial, connect the HDMI cable directly to the video output device (I use an HDMI splitter for this)

If you have 7 RCA interconnects kicking around, may be worth a try
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