Originally Posted by Tristan
Would i be better off buying a new, non-meridian DAC and connecting to an analgoue meridian pre+power or is there a Meridian DAC or digital pre-amp / processor that would give me better results?
Hi,

You would be better off with a processor like a 568 than a DAC + 501/502.

The 568 has jitter reduction and can be set up to resolution enhance and upsample a 16/44 source to 24/96; it's analogue outputs are after 24/96 DACs and have both balanced and single ended outputs.

The 568 works very well with an apple airport express (AEX) streaming 16/44 apple lossless rips.

I also have a 565 working with an AEX; it works very well too.

If you suffer from jitter with the 565, a 518 will sort that out; the 568 offers a lot of the 518 functionality.

All the best,

Steve.