Originally Posted by meridian506
To confirm, you prefer the HD621's apodizing over the 808.2i's implementation? Interesting.
David
My apologies if what I wrote above was unclear, as I suppose I had in the back of my mind that I had made Two other postings here recently about the same thing and therefore was taking too much of a short cut in my post above

SUMMARY: I preferred what I heard when Playing the Media Player thru the 808.2i rather than thru HD621 (which in turn was better than direct into a SPDIF input on my 861)

If we allocate ALL the differences I heard to Apodizing, which could well be too many assumptions, then I would say that the results of Apodizing in the 808.2i outweigh the result of Apodizing thru the HD621 (Other contributing factors could easily be HDMI Audio needing to be carried in a Video Stream and this could also lead to compromises)

This echos what Meridian have been saying for over a year; att the HH2 day and just yesterday to Frank at CES, e. that Apodizing in the 808.2i is Meridian's "best" implementation (or most fine-tuned version) of Apodizing. This could be down to Product Architecture; available MIPS and how much time was spent fine-tuning Apodizing in that product (obviously a lot of time spent on their Flagship $20k 808.2i and less time spent fine-tuning the $3k HD621)

So

** Apodizing to 24/88 in the HD621 is better than Upsampling in the 861 (Meridian "HS=On" option) to 24/88

But

** Apodizing to 24/88 in the 808.2i results in better music replay compared to the same source via HDMI into the HD621

Hope that clarifies

Last edited by Ronnie Hurley; 2010-01-10 19:00.
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