Originally Posted by AudioImages
What I am saying is that IF you NEED a 621 in the chain, because you require its ability to strip the audio off the HDMI from a source, then letting it apodise/dejitter/upsample is better than letting the signal pass unprocessed onto the 861, purely because it is earlier in the chain.
This is only true if the implementation of the apodizing filter in the 861 is the same as in the HD621. There is a lot of speculation that the implementation in the 861 is superior to the HD621, up to the same level as the 808.3. I guess the speculation is just based on wishful thinking?