HT processor recommendation


I am in need of an external home theatre processor to mate with my Parasound psp 1500. The Parasound has a DB 25 input for six channel input and I have a suitable cable. I have plugged a DVD player's six channel output directly into the Parasound and this works well. But, I want higher quality stereo sound and I listen to movies in stereo more often than multichannel. My current DAC is an Audio Note from the mid 90's that only does 44.1/48 khz; ie, it will not process the ouput from a DVD at all so I have been using the internal DAC of the DVD player when playing movies in stereo mode.

Any recommendations? I don't want to spend more than a grand; used or new is fine.
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Showing 1 response by treyhoss

I believe Parasound made a processor to mate specifically with your model using that DB 25 pin connection. I think the model is P/DD-1500. In fact, there is someone (not me nor do I know them) selling both units on eBay. You may want to look it up just to see. FWIW: I have an older Pioneer DVD/LD player that does pass PCM through the digital output to my DAC, which is a Parasound DAC1000 (mid-90's 20 bit). I was not aware that all DAC's wouldn't process a signal from a DVD. Maybe it has to do with having a PCM digital out from the player(?). You may want to try and see if there is a digital out on the back of your DVD player that says "PCM" instead of "Dolby Digital" or "DTS". If you see this, use that output to go to your DAC. That should allow you to use your DAC for listening to movies in stereo. Good luck - Tony