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_ - 29 Mar 2004 03:29 GMT

I'm looking for a car audio amplifier with digital audio inputs. I'm
having a real tough time finding one. Is there anything out there on
the market like this?

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Tha Ghee - 03 Apr 2004 19:42 GMT

> I'm looking for a car audio amplifier with digital audio inputs. I'm
> having a real tough time finding one. Is there anything out there on
> the market like this?

not yet and it any be a while, since most HUs and Procs. don't have a
digital output standard.

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thelizman - 04 Apr 2004 05:39 GMT

>>I'm looking for a car audio amplifier with digital audio inputs. I'm
>>having a real tough time finding one. Is there anything out there on
>>the market like this?
>
> not yet and it any be a while, since most HUs and Procs. don't have a
> digital output standard.

Actually, no. Most manufacturers gave up long ago, not because there
wasn't a standard, but because the cost-benefit ratio didn't justify the
technology. Sony had digital fiber optic outputs and amps that accepted
it as input in their Mobile ES line. Eclipse had digital outputs on all
their ESN CD heads at one point. Alpine still uses it's AINet protocol
which carries the audio signal in addition to data (used mainly for
outboard processors).

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John Durbin - 05 Apr 2004 03:35 GMT

I believe it was actually the Pioneer ODR system that had amps with
digital inputs... in the first generation Mobile ES products, Sony only
used digital optical connections between the P-1, other digital sources,
and the X-1 processor. The amps only had unbalanced analog RCA inputs.
Don't recall them changing that for the later Z50 but I could be wrong.

JD

>>> I'm looking for a car audio amplifier with digital audio inputs. I'm
>>> having a real tough time finding one. Is there anything out there on
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> AINet protocol which carries the audio signal in addition to data
> (used mainly for outboard processors).

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Tha Ghee - 11 Apr 2004 00:42 GMT

> >>I'm looking for a car audio amplifier with digital audio inputs. I'm
> >>having a real tough time finding one. Is there anything out there on
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> which carries the audio signal in addition to data (used mainly for
> outboard processors).

just like I said, and you just showed, there was no industry standard, every
manuf. had their own propriety connection.

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Masterson - 01 Oct 2004 14:13 GMT

I know that Alpine and Phoenix Gold both are producing
amplifiers that have a Fiber Optic input.

Octane-R 5.1MT
Alpine MRA-D550

> I'm looking for a car audio amplifier with digital audio inputs. I'm
> having a real tough time finding one. Is there anything out there on
> the market like this?

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