I've remarked before that I hope the 861v6 backplane is not "limited" to 8 channels.

My rooms do just fine with 5.0 and 5.1 (I've tried 7.0 and liked it) but some rooms are big enough to need 10.x (i.e. plus centre rear and two front height channels and as many subwoofers as you like).

Even if >7.1 source material isn't available, Meridian's fantastic matrixing (I really liked 7.0) and, perhaps not so fantastic, bass management would be a great feature in this context.

In the spirit of Spinaltap, I would like to confirm that I am not involved in the corrupt theft of a global sport.