Hi Cujo

I use one of Steve Eyles dongles - its basically a budget version of the AC12 and Reviver, made of off the shelf components rather than custom housings and implementing one of the simpler balun reference designs.

Integration with non legacy speakers and MC200 is very good, but, in common with all solutions, not total. It will not offer zone standby function - a frustration of many - so you will need the fat old remote to put the speakers into standby. They will come out of standby without though.

I have my MC200 in my office and a two CAT6 STP cables (with an unshielded link through a wall) to my DSP5000's. You still will need audio/comms (Slave) cable between speakers. This scenario frees up the coax digital out of MC200 to feed a coax/optical converter for my F80. Not ideal as its all the same zone, but workable.

Another alternative is to use a standard digital audio lead and an RJ45/Din dongle for comms. This gives the same, but without the advantage of balanced audio and a nice all in one cable. Your dealer may have some of the dongles available - they are very easy to make.

Meridian owner since 1992
Prime & PSU, Focal Elear headphones, Roon (ROCK 8Gi5 NUC), Explorer 1 & 2, F80. 200/203, various Sonos (via Roon).