cyrus av8-any way to get hd audio

[wattone]

i have a cyrus av master with three seperate power amps and would like to add a blue ray player to my system,is there any way of getting hd audio or a way of adding an another av amp to my speakers?

 

[Andrew Everard]

Unfortunately not - the best way to get HD audio would be with either an AV receiver with preouts, used to feed the Cyrus power amps, or a dedicated AV processor used in the same configuration.

But in both cases it will involve replacing the AV Master.

 

[wattone]

thank you for the quick reply

have you or any one else some suggestions that would work well with the cyrus power amps

 

[Andrew Everard]

Although we are yet to give them formal tests, I'd be thinking Marantz AV8003 or Onkyo PR-SC886 processors, though both are on the wrong side of a grand.

If you'd prefer a more stripped down approach, and buy a Blu-ray player capable of decoding all HD audio formats and outputting them as Linear PCM, I really like the Audiolab 8000AP, which is just under £1000.

However, if you can live with the waste of buying a complete receiver and not using any of the amp channels, I'd be looking at the likes of the Onkyo TX-SR806 or 876 - it really depends whether you want the better video processing of the latter to upscale other sources - or even a TX-SR875 if you can find one at a good price, it being long replaced by the 876.