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My wildest (& probably unhelpful) guess would put it close to 818 territory, I can even imagine it costing more than an 818 Well, I was right about that bit!
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So the best Trifield Experience today will be Ultra DAC into analog input on 861v8 then?
DSP8000SE, DSP7200SEHC, DSP5200SE sides, DSP7200SE rears, 861v8, 210, Sim2 Ultranero 4, Stewart Cinecurve 2.35:1, XEIT CM-5E Anamorphic lens, Dune HD Duo Cinema 8K and Wireworld Platinum 48G HDMI -> UHD722 -> Shunyata Omega Ethernet. Shunyata/Furutech power-cables/filters. SR Master Fuse@861v8. Uptone Etherregen with 10MHz OCXO clock.
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What about 861v8 3* SpeakerLink to 3*Ultra DACs? For non MQA materials of course.
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President of the Imperial Galactic Government
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The DAC tech is updated (2 steps forward) but the input ethernet tech is still 24/96? (One step back?) Is the ID41 the limiting factor for 96/24? The ID4x was once described as an Audio NIC. Apart from format decode, it's a relatively trivial task. I cannot see that ID4x tops out at 96/24 hardware capability wise. My guess, more like Sooloos core and 8xx being the limiting factors. If the Ultra DAC has improved audio processing capabilities the ID41 may well be able to take advantage of that. No point updating ID41 to USB capabilities in 8xx if Sooloos couldn't take advantage of it and something even bigger coming along with Ultra. Which leaves Sooloos/Roon capabilities. As yet to be announced, software and/or firmware update could fix that. Which may explain why Meridian are not currently revealing ID41 capabilities.
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Probably doesn't fit in this topic, but I was wondering about the other way around... a Meridian Ref MQA'd A to D converter for true analogue inputs eg turntable with pre-digital recordings.
Wouldn't that be the best way to get true analogue out of a Meridian DSP SE system?
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Don't Panic!
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Don't Panic!
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That's what, IMO, the 808v6 and 818v3 *should* have, instead of the same unchanged 6x analogue input card. I mean honestly... who has a requirement for adding six *unbalanced* analogue sources to an 8x8; vs. say a turntable XLR input which gets the MQA ADC encapsulation treatment?
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President of the Imperial Galactic Government
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Not sure if anyone has posted this review Ultra DAC video review Chris
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Stereophile Review of the Ultra DAC now online.
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