Sigh, I use the 218 with my 8kSEUP and Roon Nucleus and I don’t know when I’m going to get back to work.
Fact is a guy with my income shouldn’t even have what I do and it will probably take another 5 years before the 818v3 comes down to a price I can afford.
That said the 218 does a decent job translating MQA and while there’s been times I questioned Meridian’s choice of tweeter with the average recordings the good ones say it all.

Does the 818 do anything for the majority of the songs we stream or is MQA and analog where it shines?

DSP8000SEUP, 218, KEF Blade, Mcintosh Mc611x2, C49, Roon Nucleus. 'lovin the dream.