I was a customer for this but given that there seems little love for this within Meridian it is hard to conclude anything other than this is an aborted project. Even it if eventually gets released my feeling is that we will see a firmware update after a few months to fix any problems before being allowed to slowly fade away and then being quietly discontinued after a year or so in the hopes that nobody notices.

We haven't seen any attempt to move existing and legacy hardware from the Sooloos protocol to RAAT and, correct me if I am wrong, it isn't possible to render MQA on Meridian speakers when the first unfold is performed by anything other than a Meridian endpoint such as Roon. I gave up on Sooloos software years ago when everyone told me to keep te faith and I see no reason not to give up on Sooloos hardware now.

It is frustrating that I have never been able to play MQA on my Meridian equipment despite first owning 5200SEs and now 7200SEs. I can very easily get MQA on other manufacturers equipment that I own. I will investigate if I can get MQA into the SEs via another manufacturer but to be honest given the quirks in obtaining MQA material I will probably just give up on MQA altogether.

To me at least Meridian has become purely a manufacturer of speakers which is sad on so many levels.

Anthony.

Sources: MS600, Fidelity Audio Reference Oppo UHD-203, Roon/QNAP, AppleTV 4K
Processors: Arcam AV40, 271 x2, Lumagen 5348 with Keces P8
Speakers: DSP7200SE FL/FR, DSP5200SE VC, DSP3200 x11, DSP320.2 VOG, DSW x4
Display: JVC DLA-N7 with PK-EM2, Panamorph Phoenix Pro, 128" 2.37 Curved Silver Ticket AT Screen