[slinkelist] DXS pricing

[Dave Kolb]

Michael Roper directed me to the nirvis site for more info (of course) -
thanks. DXS sounds cool for switching line level audio if you spend lots on
amps to drive the speakers (is that is indeed one of it's uses?).

My current plan is to split my 300 CD player line level out to 5 Sony DE135
units (which are fairly decent actually) and drive 10 rooms of whole house
audio where each room pair has a dedicated tuner (the DE135) and can share
the CD as well as up to 3 more inputs to each receiver. 5 DE135 units will
only cost $700 total and I will have lots of redundancy builtin. The Slink-e
will drive the CD and receivers under my program control in conjunction with
CDJ.

What I wish the DXS or something like it would do is to switch 4 line level
audio inputs to 10 or more speaker pair directly without need more amps as
these things seem amazingly expensive standalone. I've seen ZPR and Kustom
units that address this but are very expensive as compared to dedicated
receivers and you still need the amps for the ZPR. The Kustom only does 3
rooms I think (or maybe 6).

P.S. What uses the TOSlink which seems to be an optical cable of some sort?

Thanks,
Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Kolb <davekolb@email.msn.com>
To: Marc Parker <parkdog@ix.netcom.com>; slinkelist@nirvis.com
<slinkelist@nirvis.com>
Date: Thursday, October 21, 1999 10:39 PM
Subject: Re: [slinkelist] DXS pricing


>Could someone post exactly what IS a DXS? The last 10 posts gave no clue...
>
>Thanks,
>Dave
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Marc Parker <parkdog@ix.netcom.com>
>To: slinkelist@nirvis.com <slinkelist@nirvis.com>
>Date: Thursday, October 21, 1999 5:43 PM
>Subject: Re: [slinkelist] DXS pricing
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>>I think the DXS is a component that is VERY much needed in the home
>>automation market, and the price is RIGHT. Anyone spending serious money
on
>>creating large integrated music collection "on line" immediately
recognizes
>>the value of this device. I am very please it is about to happen and
>certain
>>many people in the field will also find it is the missing link in their
>>system design.
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