To be fair, jitter and noise level wise 861.8 is still the best, at least at same level with Casablanca 4a, better than Trinnov (to my ears), just CB4A and Alt32 which sound more detailed than the 861, DSP speakers are very detail however.
But still I will switch to Alt32 if funds allow, TEQ is too special!
I agree, audio performance is at the very upper level of what's out there, it's just that it is still a small step back from the 818v3/808.6 architecture - and to be clear I'm talking about
non-MQA material. Whatever Meridian did in the v3/.6 was very special in terms of overall SQ from all sources.
For me, a v9 upgrade would be worthwhile if they upgraded generally to the same low-jitter, or whatever special-sauce internal architecture overall as v3/.6 and then add an MQA card to
decode for all purposes (e.g. to feed Trifield, etc.), and
render just for 2-channel, if one happens to have SE for FLR (since MQA isn't multichannel yet anyway).
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