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My dilemma, some advice please.

In the mix of building up my new home theater. I want to use the new codecs from blu ray, of course.
What I am not sure about doing is this.
Buying a new receiver that will decode them for me, and get a denon 2500 (transport only) via hdmi.

Or buying a denon 3800 with analog out's and get a krell showcase 7.1 or HTS 7.1. Let the blu ray do the decoding. I know this will be killer for 2 channel also.

Thanks in advance.
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bar81
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imo, you'd be better off with a player that can decode the codecs and then send LPCM to the receiver via HDMI to use the (most likely) superior DACs in the receiver. If you have it decode the codecs in the receiver (i.e., bitstream out of the Blu-Ray player) then you have an issue where you can't listen to certain secondary streams with lossless audio. See a good summary here:

http://www.soundadviceblog.com/?page_id=1140
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