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The Altitude8-16 has 8 (16 option) digital in - and 16 digital outputs on the DB25 connectors.
See here-scroll down the page to Audio..

The Trinnov get the sources either via:
08 channels via HDMI
16 channels via DB25
08 channels via SPDIF
08 channels via TOSLINK
04 channels via AES3(XLR).

Or connect analogue sources.

The Altitude(xx) delivers the then processed audio on the DB25 connector and the 271 receive that on its DB25 connector.

Then connect the DSPs via "SL Output" - that's it.

Do we know the price of the 271?

See Joel's post [#266570] just a little way up in this topic.

Great, thank you

I think there's a possibility for confusion here...

Although Trinnov offer the current Altitude in a variety of configurations including 8 & 16 channels as well as 24/32 channels there has been some discussion of a lower cost model with reduced functionality (max 16 channels I think). I've seen this referred to as Altitude 16 - which I think is what Cliff was meaning. I haven't seen any specifications on this lower cost option so don't know how it might hook up to the 271.

Chris

The Altiude 32 can be bought in:

08-channels
16-channels
24-channels
32-channels

And if you buy the lower channels models you can uppgrade to more channels for the same cost as the price difference between the different models.
So it will not cost more to buy the 8-channel model and later upgrade to the 16-channel model than to buy the 16-channel.

The new Altitude 16 will be 16-channel only and can not be upgraded to any more channels than 16.
And as far as i know the Altitude 16 will NOT have any digital out, only analog XLR.

The back panel shot of the pre-release 16 model only had XLR outputs so unless this has changed (unlikely), it can only be connected to the 271 via the analogue interface.

EDIT: Trinnov presentation
At about 1:55, he starts talking about the new 16 model and there's a shot later on of the back panel.

Don't know if this has new info but just saw it linked on twitter

Although I've seen it before about the 271, I find this an interesting quote from M:

David Haworth,

I think you nailed it finding this quote.
Meridian has always looked at things fairly long term before investing.
And they see “hard media” as a dead end now which are the only means of supporting these high bandwidth formats. It all makes sense.

I fall into that camp myself. I stream almost everything now.
Not as good but good enough.

The high and bandwidth formats may “return” as streaming bandwidth increases, maybe in a decade.

Or sooner: Atmos on Netflix

Actually, I'm not sure that that's full bandwidth material. Also, it depends upon how you define streaming. I've been streaming movies with HD audio from my internal media server for several years.

Tidal HiFi?