Originally Posted by mrmarbach
One thing I am not clear on: does the MMHR in and 8x Speakerlink out necessarily mean that the 861 v6 has 8 channel architecture and can therefore deal with 7.1 channels of lossless PCM from input to output?
Yes it does. All Meridian processors since the original 565 (I think) have been able to support eight output channels. It's only been the lack of 7.1 sources which has been the real limitation. Remember that the processors synthesize 7.1 channels from 5.1 so, in once sense, the processors have less to do!

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