Originally Posted by ncpl
I would absolutely love an 808.2i but really can't justify another disc player.
So who here would pay for a lower cost 808i.2 without the CD spinner or analogue section? Oh, hang on, isn't that the apodizing update for the processors?

There's an interesting point here. Dare Meridian put lower quality stereo apodizing into, for sake of argument, the 861? If it does, it will certainly cannibalize 808(i).2 sales even if the 808.2 is (for early-in-chain upsampling/apodizing reasons) the ultimate in CD replay. If M doesn't, well that doesn't even bear thinking about.

My own opinion on this is that the processors will eventually get a stereo apodizing filter which is equal in quality to that in the 808.2, but that there is more than "testing" to the delay in releasing these filters. It's all about 808.2 sales.

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