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I have a C2300 in one room and a MX120 in the HT. The MX120 is a fine preamp. So I'm sure the MX121 would be as well. There is a MX122 now you might want to investigate
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I prefer to buy a generation behind on SSP's because of the depreciation. I have no problem buying their amps new but SSP's are in a category of depreciation I can't handle.
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My brand new MX121 arrived today. Wow! Talk about a huge difference from my 13 year old SSP I was using. I can't believe I waited this long to upgrade. I was going to post a picture but it doesn't appear this forum is allowing me.
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I have a MX121 and love it. I had a MX119 and loved it too. I'm not one to stay up on the video side of things so staying behind a few years on this line of products works perfectly for me. I Don't have a 4K TV and I Listen to TV as two channel. I'm curious how you wire up the MX121 as this "pass thru mode". I have other preamps and amps that I would like to use with this feature. With pass through, are you skipping the internal DAC of the MX121? thanks jc
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Also, what is the DAC chipset in the MX121?
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It bypasses the preamp. The signal is coming from the MX121 so it does bypass it. The path would be MX121 out its Front Left/Front Right outputs to input of your preamp and then out it main output to your amp. Your preamp would need to have a "theater mode" to be used in this way. Lots of them let you designate one of its inputs for this feature. Which preamp to you have etc? Edward
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Ok. So I got confused on what you were describing. You are using the pass thru on the preamp. I was thinking you were using some feature on the MX121 for the pass thru.
My bad.
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