Simon
I've looked at this already in a similar way

I think your costs are in th right Ballpark, assuming there are no Card Conflicts between New and Old cards. E.g. if inserting an IE44 makes the the OE14 obligatory, then the "basic" costs will go up (and I would need to add some AC12's)

The biggest question for me right now though is "What do I get if I upgrade". My answers (for my situation ONLY) are

a) Apodizing of ALL Digital Inputs on the IE44 Card (he said hopefully, with the Jury still very much out on that one)

b) 8-Channel Input from the HD621 (as Opposed to Meridian's synthesizing of the Sides)

At the moment, I cannot find any other compelling reasons to Upgrade. I have older DSP's, so Speakerlink is not an advance

In the absence of Apodizing on all Inputs, then I'm not sure why I would to be honest. Likewise, if Apodizing were to become available as a Firmware Update (as per the D5200's) then I would also think twice

Discrete Side Channels (as "designed" by the Sound Mixer) might be slightly better than Meridian's synthesized efforts, but by how much and it likely would very much depend on the Movie

Let's hope Frank can get some more compelling Answers or Reasons when he talks to Meridian on Saturday

Last edited by Ronnie Hurley; 2010-01-05 19:50.
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