Meridian Unplugged - Powered by MrTechGuy.co.uk Forums Discussion Meridian - Streaming Meridian 210 Streamer - Released!

Got mine last week already, having been first in the queue at Graham’s for months, ever since discovering my ID40 won’t get an IP address, and the Auralic Aries had to go back for a fix.

I thought the 210 would be a quick fix for Roon/Qobuz - which I’m glad to say, it is, brilliantly. Connected up via SL to an 861v6-and-a-bit (LPS done and v8 input and output cards waiting to go in) and working within about three minutes of running the app. Perfect for what I need immediately and using ‘musiclogic’ has turned roon into a very pleasing and immediate experience. The app does very little to be honest once it’s set up, but who cares. Maybe you’d use it if you had a non 800 controller?

Next is to try out the Bluetooth and replace the little magic “Relay” box from MassFidelity which worked a treat for iPlayer via iPad.

Not bothered about Airplay, have an AppleTV which does all that when (rarely) needed.

I’m most curious to find out if the co-ax output works simultaneously with SL out configured as MHR, as this is intended to need everything streaming related into the kitchen G92. I can’t test this without a bit of extra fiddling I haven’t had time for.

Slight rant alert. I still really miss the aux output that you’re not allowed on the 861 (‘incompatible’ with the reference nature of 800 series apparently). And while on that subject, the UHD722 has two outputs, but if you use MHR, it’s useless as it won’t send audio to the 2nd output. So now a proliferation of extra HDMI splitters and the like to duplicate Sky and Apple TV to the kitchen.

I really must add a signature sometime, tried ages ago and ran out of characters!

Best wishes and good luck to any and all.