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Hi Everyone, I heard from Peggy, Bob Carver's wife, yesterday. I am delighted to report that she and Bob are still set to attend!! Ed

@brjoon1021 Welcome to the Carver site!! Nice to have another DTL user. I currently run and select between three digital sources that use my DTL. I accomplish this by using a dbx 200X. Each of the digital sources are connected to the tape deck 1,2, and 3 IN tape jacks. Don't need to connect to the out on the dbx since I'm not recording on any of the CD players. The Carver DTL is hooked up to Sound Processor loop #1 utilizing both the in and out connection. Your preamp is hooked up to the LINE out on the dbx to the preamp in connection, I used the CD input on my Marantz. If you look into a dbx unit make sure that it has jumpers on the encoder and decoder connections like in the below picture. They are necessary to have unless you are using an encoder and decoder in your setup. There is a switch, BYP (bypass), on the front of the dbx unit that allows you to have the DTL in or out of the signal path. Prior to deployment of the dbx unit into my system I cleaned all the switches and checked every solder joint. The nice thing is that it has no plug nor power supply at all. And that's the way to share three digital sources with one DTL. Hopefully this helps. Ps, download the DTL manual found on our site. It states that the DTL needs to be installed between the CD player and the preamp. The manual for the dbx unit is available here, https://www.hifiengine.com/manual_library/dbx/200x.shtml

What preamp do you have? If you have a Carver preamp, you should have some RCA jack input/output for an "external processor" loop which gives you control to use anything like a DTL processor (essentially like an equalizer) at any time regardless which input you are listening to... Other preamps have this feature too, I'm sure, but probably not all... Here's what the Carver Preamps usually look like..... Otherwise, the manual for the DTL unit advises putting it between CD player and preamp. But, I think you may still be ok to put it behind the preamp....I think that's how an EQ would be placed in a system without an external processing loop... But, I'm not 100% sure....there are better minds on this site who may know better.....