Sorry to muddy the waters. I couldn't confirm the exact wording, just that whatever it was doing in the speaker was a better place than the C15. I did notice that the 818 displayed 96k whilst the speakers displayed 192k if that sheds any light.
When one guy queried Richard on whether he would be better off upgrading his DSP8K to SE or getting an MQA card for his 861, Richard favoured the SE path. This seemed to be on two fronts: There is no guarantee that MQA will ever really arrive in force (although everything seems in place to make it happen), and that they are doing so much to 44.1 with apodising etc. that it already goes a long way. Richard said that when demonstrating MQA to studios using an Explorer 2 they had to turn off apodising on the 44.1 to really highlight what MQA was doing, as otherwise the apodising was closing the gap a good deal.
Personally when I experienced MQA through the C15 I liked it but it didn't 'blow me away'. I am not used to DSP8ks or most of the tracks available though so it was hard to say what was doing all the work. I am pretty sure I could live with that set-up though...
I should add a huge thanks to Richard and the rest of the Meridian and Sevenoaks staff who were very patient and answered a LOT of questions from everyone.
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