processor's with optical input?

[vroomy 10+ year member]

what options are there for processors with optical inputs? do audiocontrol do one?

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[mylows10 5,000+ posts]

Arc audio ps8

 

[keep_hope_alive Premium Member]

new or older? Alpine has had several in their PXA series.

 

[vroomy 10+ year member]

Looking for something older that's nice and simple, prefer not to have to use PC to setup. It's mainly for me to be able to use my 7990 without the missing DC converter

 

[martiandancer31 10+ year member]

miniDSP

 

[ciaonzo 5,000+ posts]

Clarion, but it's proprietary. I have four Clarion setups with optical, unbelievable sound.

 

[vroomy 10+ year member]

what do you mean 'proprietary'? (sorry im a little simple haha)

 

[vroomy 10+ year member]

what do you mean 'proprietary'? (sorry im a little simple haha)

 

[keep_hope_alive Premium Member]

if you have an Alpine head, go with an Alpine processor. you get AiNet control and optical input (so the volume on the alpine head unit controls the volume on the processor). any other brand will require you have a separate volume control for that processor when using an optical input.

you have several choices in the PXA line - each with a different controller.

but the only processor made to keep up with the quality of the F#1 line (the CDA-7990 is F#1) is the F#1 PXA-H900 processor.

The H700 and H701 are noisy.