I think it's fair to say that everything Meridian knows about CD replay is in the 808.2, so there is magic everywhere (disc reading, buffering, upsampling, apodizing, resolution enhancement, noise shaping with dither, jitter management, etc, etc). There are an infinite number of possible apodizing implementations, Meridian has engineered the filter that it believes sounds the best to its engineers' well trained ears. (Drool)

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