In this highly digital age I find it hard to believe that audio equipment hasn't keep pace with the change (or have I just missed it?).
We have advanced massively in active speakers and digital room correction technology, but have no way of properly implementing it...
I keep thinking it is just me that can't find it in my searching, but I am really starting to think that it just doesn't exist. It's like you can have this Lamborghini Aventador but in only comes with steel rims and 155 retreads and no way of upgrading to bigger mags or tyres.
In order to do a multi channel active system you ideally want to be running a digital signal right up to the DSP where the correction takes place and then passed out to the amp to provide oomph to the speakers.
Problem is there doesn't seem to be a device on the market that allows you to split the digital signal into multiple digital signals without doing umpteen D/A and A/D conversions.
So the dream of outputting digital from your CD / SACD / Network player into something that can take that output, process it, and output multiple individual digital outputs without either changing it from digital to analog and back, or amplifying when you are not ready for that stage just doesn't seem to exist.
I am not even talking about the utopia of it being capable of handling DSD input, I am just talking basic PCM. The only active x-overs on the market e.g. DEQX, Ground Sound etc only do two channels and basically consume your one and only digital input.
Surely there has to be a simple quality device out there that allow you to split up the individual digital signals to allow you the freedom to process it as you see fit?