Originally Posted by Cbunny
The best they could do is put the guts of an Oppo in a Meridian box with Meridian comms and maybe MHR outputs and sell it for a modest premium (Oppo + �300 max). Don't even try to claim it's something it's not (cough)Lexicon(/cough)

Its a vain hope, but that's what I'd like to see as well. Yes, the HD621 achieves that functionality, but since the digital audio has to be converted to HDMI and then back again, I don't accept that there's no performance penalty. Several media players don't decode the lossless codecs, either.

I'm convinced that the only way to get the best possible SQ in a high-def multi-channel Meridian system is to have MHR outputs on the player. HDMI should never have been invented, but since we can't avoid it now, lets keep it for video, and never for audio.

Yes, I know most people don't agree....

Nick