Originally Posted by Ronnie Hurley
Originally Posted by Simon
I will be very interested to see what the upgrade pricing looks like, but if it is as significant as Franks conversations with M suggest, then a good many current 861 owners may get left ont he sidelines.
Indeed. If the reported cost of $25,000 includes all the Reported Core Cards, and one takes even $5k off for the Case, then the maths are not pretty

The Benefits as I see them (for my situation, but likely for several here) are

** Apodizing for CD Replay from the 800 Player

** Apodizing for Media Player / Server music from my Sonos (which I would very much like to have but at $20k approx???????????)

** Discrete 8-Channel Audio for the 7.1 Bluray Discs which are currently out there (which my jury is still out on as regards discrete 7.1 over Meridian's Derived 7.1)

Hmmm.............................


Ronnie, I could NOT agree more and, to this end, fear that my days as a Meridian owner are at an end should the cost of upgrading my 861v4 to a 861v6 be $20,000 as there is no way that I can see the cost/benefit of this...the other point that I would add would be that it now appears official that the 800 architecture is dead meaning that there will be no upgrades at all to the end...so putting all this together what I now have is:

1. $25,000 invested in an M800 that because of i) my Oppo BD-83 ii) my SONOS into my Radiance for apodizing and iii) no further upgrades is a door stop.

2. $25,000 invested in an M861 that is now too a door stop or now a $45,000 investment.

So, to make a long story short, I will either have $50,000 invested in upgradeable kit that is either not upgradeable or cost prohibitive to do so or $70,000 invested with nothing other than a 861V6 to show for it....what is M thinking!!!




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