A quick question about 'Importing'. (Asbestos suit to hand)

As Meridian often have their own, superior approaches to established codecs, would there be any advantage to ripping CDs to WAV, and let the MC200 do a Meridian FLAC conversion.

Alternatively, has anyone compared a C15 rip to a db poweramp one? I know bits are bits, but then why do we use Meridian?

Thanks,
Richard

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