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Our experience teaches us without any doubt that to get the best sound you need dedicated and carefully optimised hardware at the point where audio becomes analogue. It's no accident that the 800 Series, our dedicated endpoints such as MS600 and MS200 and the DSP loudspeakers are designed as they are.

Which would seem to be why allowing audio from a touch screen computer would compromise Meridian's reputation for audio quality. People would think they are getting a cheap C15 forgetting the audio quality bit.
Adding an MS200 for audio quality seems fair all round to me.

Thoughts, Chris smile

No 18 in the Hall of fame smile I have simple tastes; I am content to settle for the best:
GIK monster bass panels, rear wall. QNAP TVS 471i3. Roon into DSP5200SE via 210/ 218 zone... Explorer 2. Bluesound Pulse 2, Mini & Flex. 596v1, 518, Foxsat HD, Sony BDP, Pioneer 5090, 2 Chromecast's for LRB videos. MS200 to F80 for a Roon zone