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I think what George is saying is that to avoid throwing away the added value of the Meridian, you need to sample at a very high sample rate. Much of the value of the Meridian products is in their ability to massage a signal. Part of this is resolution enhancement.

By the time the signal has left the 861, it has been resolution enhanced to 192/24 carried as an analogue signal. To recreate this signal back in the digital domain, it would need to be sampled at twice this frequency, otherwise you will be throwing away some of what the Meridian processor has added.

Whether what Meridian adds is value or not is down to the individual, especially when the signal may have started life out as CD quality. But the message is, if you are buying into all the Meridian tricks that make their products different from others, then one should consider whether it is right to undo all those tricks by resampling at a lower rate than is necessary to recreate an exact digital representation of the original signal as fully processed the processor.

Whether or not the signal at this sample rate makes any audible difference is not what I see Georges post being all about. Its all about the ability to correctly recreate the theoretical digital signal output from the DAC that is only present in analogue form, assuming that the physical digital input to the DAC is processed further in the DAC with Meridian adding value in the final DAC process of the 861. Sorry if this sounds confusing as we are talking about a theoretical digital signal from a device that only outputs analogue.

Apologies George for speaking on your behalf, but I think I understood what you were trying to say and thought that as a gardener, I may have a bigger spade than you!