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Universal player - Multi-channel HDMI question?

I am reaching out here because I am inexperienced in this matter and am hoping for a lesson. I have a Denon Universal 3900 and an Anthem Statement D1 preamp AND the upgrade bug.

I want to replace these two pieces with a high end processor and a universal player that can do all the multichannel formats without the old 6 analog cable connection. In other words - HDMI probably.

I have a pretty decent budget up to about $15,000 for the two pieces and I don't mind buying clean used pieces here on A-Gon so there should be quite a few good choices.

I don't know how to get started with this research. Multiple searches turn up one solution or another but without any baseline for comparison and without my understanding of the pros and cons.

I also don't know how to get really good D/A conversion accomplished. Do I just rely on the D/A convertors in the preamp? Do I run HDMI into an HDMI capable D/A convertor (if such a thing even exists)??

I am really confused on this whole mess of how to do multi channel digital well. Can I get some help here please?

Thanks,
Russ
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keith944t
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I am by no means an expert on multi-channel anything,and I didn't even stay at a Holiday Inn express- sorry little joke there-- However
I just bought a Cambridge Audio DVD99 universal DVD player it does have HDMI out, it plays SACD's and it also plays DVD Audio. The book says it plays them multi channel as well. I think there are some caveat's in there, but that (multi-channel)wasn't my concern. I was more interested in the USB connection, hoping it would play my music from my external hard drive, it doesn't. But the unit is not too expensive, under $350. Check out the Cambridge Audio web page, you can browse the user manual online there and see if it meets your needs.
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