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George,

What comes out of the analog outputs of an 861 after Meridian has applied resolution enhancement, upsampling, and all of its "secret sauce" is an analog signal which has a frequency response of x Hz to y kHz.

When performing analog to digital conversion, you will need to sample that analog signal at 2*y kHz to capture everything that is there to capture. Unless you think that there is high frequency information up to 192kHz in that analog signal, you will not need to resample at 384kHz. Likewise, unless you think that there is high frequency information up to 96 kHz in that analog signal, you will not need to resample at 192kHz. Moreover, unless you think that there is high frequency information up to 48kHz in that analog signal, you will not have to resample at 96kHz. Continuing, unless you think that there is high frequency information up to 44.1kHz in that analog signal, you will not have to resample at 88.2kHz.

Bob has consistently maintained that 96/24 is overkill to capture everything that is audible. Surely an analog to digital converter sampling at 48kHz is more than adequate to capture the analog signal representing the bass output from a crossover operating at 80Hz without compromising any of the Meridian magic performed in making such analog signal.