Surround pre quality

I meant Rotel RSP-1068 or RSP-1098 not 968.

Thanks Kal, I figured I knew the answer, I'm trying to decide what to do. I have a Meridian 561, which I love, but it doesn't have 5.1 inputs.

Kal,
I do not need any video processing, but I do need some digital processing for movies broadcasted or from Direct TV. So I do need a unit that is decent for analog and digital
Thanks
Jeff

I have an Onkyo PR-SC886P Pre on it's way.It's a refurb and I bought from shoponkyo.com
I thought about a lex or Krell, but I decided to go with the Onkyo, because of the Audessy Eq feature.
From what I understand it's digital processing is very good, analog is ok, but I won;t need that. I have a seperate 2 channel pre.

Jeff

Jimmy,
It's the same as the 9.9 and the refurb price is hard to pass up. If you are interested, AVS forums has a thread that is good reading. Kal, also did a review on the previous model, in Stereophile. Music in the Round, Jan. 2008.
I will be using the new Oppo Blu Ray player to process the audio and pass them through the HDMI connection to the Onkyo. All I will have other than that will be some broadcst movies and sports.

No, I won't be using the Oppo for redbook. I have my Electrocomaniet EMC-1UP in my 2 channel set up.
I will post my impressions, once it's up and running.

Yes and I'm still trying to decide if I am going to keep it. It does a good job with movies, but I just keep wondering if I would be happier with a higher end pre with 5.1 inputs. Don't get me wrong the Onkyo sounds good, but as long as I'm in the 30 day grace period, I keep checking options and second guessing myself. I can say that if my, now gone Meridian 561 had 5.1 analog inputs, I would still have it. I really don't think I was missing much of anything with that in my syatem. I jsut needed to try SACD, DVD Audio and the hd codecs.
Sorry, I probably muddied the waters even more.