I am considering the Ayre DX5 / Oppo or Theta CompliBlu.

I�m running a Meridian 861V4 + HD621 on the audio side and a Runco video processor + Runco plasma display on the video side. From what I have been able to ascertain , the Ayre is unlikely to offer me much (if any) benefit in terms of Blu-Ray video presentation versus the Oppo or Theta for that matter. Is this a correct assumption or am i missing something?

On the audio side, given that I�m using the 861 + HD621 I am also assuming that the Ayre/Oppo/Theta will not provide me with materially better/higher quality audio when watching Blu-Ray or DVDs? Is that also a correct assumption or am I again missing something?

If the abvove assumptions that I'm making are correct it is a question of what is the best transport available for my purposes that can internally decode Dolby True HD and DTS Master Audio and send the resulting signal to my HD621 (I'm assuming that all three units can do this but if that is not the case please let me know as that would clearly rule that product out). Do any of these three units work particularly well with the 861v4 + HD621 combination? Is there another product that I should be looking at? It seems to me that all the "enhanced" Oppo based products have little merit for Meridian based systems as the vast majority of the additional enginering/value is on the analog audio side which would not be utilised in an 861 + HD621 set-up, correct?

I would only use the new transport for BD as I would retain my Meridian DVD player for DVD-A playback as well as SD DVD playback. I never built up an SACD library and thus I�m indifferent to this format.



Many thanks in advance.