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Now I am speculating-I sense he sincerely believed M would not cede technical leadership of high end multichannel at the front end. To him that meant music over movies. As VK observed, they shot themselves in the foot being first out to do MQA, then one brother changed the rules on the other brother.

This may just be my bias chasing the best sound I could afford and finding M in 1997. Bought 561, 5500s and 5000C with B&W on walls on back. I was mesmerized by Trifield. Kal praised it when His column began several years later. I had been disappointed in CDs vs vinyl at that time. Shortly after my turntable had a problem and I never got it diagnosed.

Kal is a digital High Rez music guy. He can't do DSP speakers or it would eliminate the variables to talk about in the middle and at the end where the sound comes out. He has 2 homes and setups where he can provide say 2-4 speakers/amps used to highlight strengths and weaknesses of the combined results on different iterations, throw in some cable talk on the side. The constant in his column, and unquestioned truth in digital was the 861. I recall he has/had Anthem and paradigm going in the Connecticut house.

Now here comes Meridian with oops 96K isn't enough after all, and 2 channel is really the truth after all, now that we have discovered the Magic that is MQA. As an owner of 2 homes time split evenly, and, tired of 7 Surround setups(including one in a vacation rental home) when I don t watch movies in any critical way, I am buying it and love my SEs. I don't think I will ever buy another new M processor.

From Kal's perspective, I take him saying nothing as professionally appropriate to keep any disappointment/feeling let down, and resulting bias off the page. He may well have a secret MQA setup somewhere. It was clear to me when he "said goodby" to the M processor in his column, a part of him thought it a shame to have to part with M.