Many thanks, dBrowne & Ludwig!

Ludwig, if you don't mind me asking, when you were running your 818 parallel with a Meridian surround processor, which surround processor did you use and how did you have the two machines connected? The local Meridian dealer has tried to explain this type of setup to me, but I have not yet been able to get my head around it.

When you say that an update might be due soon, do you mean from 818v3 to an 818v4? Based on typical previous upgrades how much might it cost to upgrade an 818v3 to an 818v4?

I will be very relieved if ripping my CDs takes significantly less than 500 hours. I was guesstimating 20 minutes per disc to put the disc into my computer, wait for it to load, download the CD information, do any minor edits that might be required to the CD information, rip the disc in lossless format, then repeat the process with some inevitable lost time in between discs when I'm not immediately ready to put the next disc in.

If the ripping process is significantly faster than expected, I might get it done in as little as 200 hours, but that will still take me many months (if not a year or more) in my spare time. I will definitely stream from Tidal quite heavily at first.


Last edited by DC; 2017-12-30 21:21.
2-Channel System: Marantz SA-15S1, Classé DR-4 pre, Classé CAM-400 monoblocks, SoundLAB Millennium 2 speakers.

5-Channel System: Oppo BDP-103, SimAudio Moon Orbiter, Classé SSP-75 pre/pro, Classé CA-101 amps (bi-amping), Classé CAV-75, B&W Matrix 804, B&W Matrix HTM center, B&W Matrix 805.

Soon to be adding an 8-channel Merging NADAC Player.