Originally Posted by Audio High
There is some misinformation, so please wait for the official announcement answering all the questions from Meridian. I will post one once they give me the OK or maybe they will directly.

The trade-in program won't make sense for everyone. It's an expensive unit to build and since there is no value to them in the older boxes they are taking as trade-in, they are just covering their costs to do the upgrade.

Very keen to see the official announcement.

Whether the trade-in program won't make sense depends, I suppose, on the reasons why. If it is because it is prohibitively expensive, then I think a lot of people on this forum are going to have a real problem with that - myself included. I don't presume to know the profile of typical 861 owners, but I'd suspect that some decent pecentage bought it as an aspirational/finacial stretch product. To not be offerred a reasonable cost upgrade option (even reasonable in Meridian-speak), if that is indeed what happens, is I think deplorable. If the trade-in program doesn't make sense because the benefits are minimal, then I have no problem with that.

Surely the old boxes/boards will be retained, or at least some of them, as spares for older 861 units that will undoubtably be left in the marketplace?

My Kit: 861v8+ID41, 800v4, UHD722, MD600, MS600, MS200, Oppo BDP-203, Genesis 201, Genesis 350 SE, Genesis S4-8 Sub, BG 520i, VTL MB450 II, Krell Showcase 7, Genesis 928 Subs, Danley DTS10 sub, SVS Ultra 16 subs.