Originally Posted by Cliff.
That's pretty much the key issue, isn't it? Also, I'm not convinced sufficient processing power can put on a card and efficiently cooled within the current 861 double skinned architecture. My Marantz 8802 processor use to get pretty hot and my current Trinnov has a fan-cooled Corei7 processor driving things. Given it does a bit more than just decode Atmos.
True doing "Room Correction" on 16 (or more) channels could take a few "watts".

But I suspect a "271" like card (e.g. think Explorer 2 as far as Watts/MIPS needed for Decode) and probably an "SE" DAC card probably could be supported by the 861 "Case" (also a good example of not that many watts probably needed as I assume say a 5200 still runs fairly cool which has a fairly limited means of passive cooling).

Also keep in mind since the Trinnov is a "PC" under the hood, it's not going to be quite as efficient with Watts/MIPS as something dedicated/embedded.

But for Atmos/DTS:x 16 or more channels you are probably right.

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