When I had my upgrade to 808.5 done not long ago by my local Meridian dealer (who has, incidentally, since gone bankrupt and closed their doors), I was informed that the upgrade would necessarily disable the digital output. To be honest, I didn't think much of it at the time--after all, I had never used the digital out. But last night I wanted to test a DAC briefly, thought I'd just plug it into the digital coax output on my 808, and sure enough, it doesn't pass any signal.

So I'm really just asking for confirmation that this disabling was really a necessary part of the upgrade? I know for a fact that my upgrade was the first (and perhaps only) 808.5 upgrade that this dealer performed, so I don't have a huge amount of confidence that they knew what they were doing.

Thanks!

Sooloos C15, 2x2TB TwinStores, Meridian 808.5, BSG Tech QOL, Allnic L-5000, FirstWatt SIT-1s, Zu Dominance; Modwrighted Oppo BDP95, Classe SSP-800, Sony VPL-VW50 Pearl.