Pre/Pro recommendations

[RoMan]

Hi everybody,

In the very near future, I will be upgrading to a pre/pro from my current Denon 3803. I would like some suggestions as to what pre/pro would be an ideal match for my Rotel RMB 1095. How many digital inputs is suffice? More is better but is 3 coaxial and 2 optical sufficient for the multitudes of digital equipment nowadays?

Outlaw Audio and Rotel are ones I am looking at right now. My budget would be in the 1000.00 to 1500.00 CAD range for starters of course give or take a few hundred bucks.

Thanks in advance for your suggestions.

RoMan

[chinets]

The Rotel Ore/Pro 1098 for now is all I know, and it is Awesome!!
To get all the new formats, and HDMI ,you will have to wait a while!
Good Luck!

[hifiguymi]

Hi everybody,

In the very near future, I will be upgrading to a pre/pro from my current Denon 3803. I would like some suggestions as to what pre/pro would be an ideal match for my Rotel RMB 1095. How many digital inputs is suffice? More is better but is 3 coaxial and 2 optical sufficient for the multitudes of digital equipment nowadays?

Outlaw Audio and Rotel are ones I am looking at right now. My budget would be in the 1000.00 to 1500.00 CAD range for starters of course give or take a few hundred bucks.

Thanks in advance for your suggestions.

RoMan

If you need or would like HDMI switching, then you'll have to wait a little bit for a Rotel. The current scaler, the RVE-1060, that Rotel has as an add on to the RSP-1068 and RSP-1098 WILL NOT switch 1080P. Who knows if they will replace the RVE-1060 in the future, but it is not upgradeable in it current form. They would have to start from scratch for a piece that will do 1080P. The new preamps are supposed to be out sometime this fall but no firm time table is set at this time. The only piece that is on it's way that will do 1080P is the RSX-1058 and that ships in April.

Eric

[shadow 8]

At this point there is no firm word that the new preamps will have PCM audio over the HDMI inputs. If the latest news about the 1058 receiver is true, there will be no audio over HDMI with the new pre/pros.

[hifiguymi]

At this point there is no firm word that the new preamps will have PCM audio over the HDMI inputs. If the latest news about the 1058 receiver is true, there will be no audio over HDMI with the new pre/pros.

The RSX-1058 WILL do audio from the HDMI inputs. The last news my rep had gotten from Rotel showed it will do uncompressed multichannel PCM as well. I will try to verify that as soon as I can.

Eric

[Kevin D]

If you need or would like HDMI switching, then you'll have to wait a little bit for a Rotel. The current scaler, the RVE-1060, that Rotel has as an add on to the RSP-1068 and RSP-1098 WILL NOT switch 1080P. :

Have you tried, or are you just going by the specs?

( Who knows if they will replace the RVE-1060 in the future, but it is not upgradeable in it current form. They would have to start from scratch for a piece that will do 1080P. Eric

I find it hard to believe it can't be upgradeable to even pass 1080p. The same video chip is in the RSX-1058 and it's currently SCALING to 1080p with the latest beta version. I can easily see an upgrade to get the 1060 to scale to 1080p as well.

Kevin D.

[hifiguymi]

I find it hard to believe it can't be upgradeable to even pass 1080p. The same video chip is in the RSX-1058 and it's currently SCALING to 1080p with the latest beta version. I can easily see an upgrade to get the 1060 to scale to 1080p as well.

Kevin D.

That is coming from the horses mouth so to speak. I confimed it with the guys in tech support at Rotel, it will not switch (pass) anything 1080P and it can't be upgraded. Because of the architecture of the piece and the chip set it uses (I don't know for sure if the chipset is the same in the RSX-1058, but I'll try to find out) it will not handle anything 1080P. We have not ordered one for our store because of it. The RVE-1070 was going to, but that piece has been killed. The chipset that was going to be used in that unit wasn't as advertised by the manufacturer and they (the manufacturer) were sold before the R&D was done anyway. Sorry for the ban news.

Eric

[Warpdrv1]

I too was on the lookout for a good Pre/Pro to go with my 1095, and decided that it would be better to just wait it out until the HDMI business worked out some more wrinkles.
I ended up with a Pioneer for a Pre/Pro for a little while to do my switching.

As far as I know, the front runner in the HT HDMI switching arena is Anthem..
D2, AVM 40, & AVM 50
They are making quite the amazing units there, but hard for me to swallow the Price right now...

Warp

[DSGCobra]

^^ be carful the AVM 40 is currently not able to pass a 1080p signal. Anthem is aware and are working a fix no ETA yet.