Yesterday, I asked Arcam if their Solo Movie 5.1 was ‘end-of-life’ because of the huge price reduction. Their response...
The reason for the price drop is that we had too much held stock that tied up a lot of money so we have dropped the price to reduce the levels of our held stock and free that money up for other things. Officially the unit has not been discontinued.
BTW, there aren’t as many optical/coax inputs on the Arcam compared to your Meridian. I suggest buying a suitable outboard patch box to remedy this.