Originally Posted by VirusKiller
Yes, the provision of digital inputs is pretty miserly, though I confess that they would do for me. The number of analogue inputs is simply a reflection of the existing card and the fact - love it or hate it - that Meridian appears to have done nothing vis-à-vis the analogue input section this time round.
It would also meet my current requirements re 808.6.

You can please some of the people all of the time.

You can please all of the people some of the time.

But today M cannot please all of the people all of the time.

Firmly on the fence at this time and would hate to receive a downgrade to my Red Book collection.

It would appear I am not alone in hearing / thinking that something has changed since my MQA audition.

OK latest audition of 818.3 7200SE was not MQA just Red Book and some excellent hi-res files.

Thanks Altus for your revisit and second report including comments from Andrew at AI.

However I do not want to turn the wick up above 60 to get the desired result I have today!

Hector

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