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The Meridian kit is great, if you use all-Meridian components because, as you note, you can eliminate jitter but only when using Meridian's proprietry encoding. If you want to use other digital kit, or Meridian kit, ie 800, with non-Meridian components, then jitter once again becomes an issue. The Big Ben addresses this and allows one to use any digital source and ensure that jitter is unmeasurable.

Somehow I was under the impression that the Meridian 861 (and Meridian G68) will always reclock it's digital inputs, regardless of if it's coming from a Meridian device or not.

That is, if I just input a DVD player (say a Sony DVD player) into the Meridian 861 via a coaxial input, the Meridian would still reclock that signal.

You get other benefits from Meridian components. For example, if I have both a Meridian 800 and a Meridian 861, then the Meridian 800 will decode the AC3 signal to allow other signal improvements with the 861's DSP processors.

Am I mistaken? Does the Meridian 861 only reclock signals from other Meridian components and no others?

Thanks for the clarification ...

861, 800, G68, Sony G90, Snell&Wilcox Interpolat