I'm coming from a set of M60 Mk1's. The DSP5000.2's sound great. They are a 9 out of 10 condition I would say. Got lucky. I set them up as type 5 with a streaming box into D1. I'm using digital volume control from the streaming box at the moment- also picked up a Meridian Distributor3 to use as an interface to my Integra Pre/Pro for L/C/R channels and got it working, but haven't had much time to play with it. I still need to play with the tilt a little and also a DSP5000C.1 that was upgraded to 24/96.

You can configure the Distributor3 using a terminal program on your PC or Mac. Each of the three channels of the Distributor 3 has a USB connection. Each USB connection powers and configures its respective channel. When you get the terminal running you might need to turn on serial echo to get a correct terminal screen output. Once you get the command line interface going there is a help function. Using the help function for each channel I was able to program the entire box to power on and retain the analog inputs as the input after power cycling. It's a little odd that the box needs three USB cables to power the entire unit, but I guess they just slapped three distributor 1's in there and called it a day.

Because overkill is underrated, I bought the latest Denon 7.2 AVR and 8 channels of I2S to SPDIF boards. The plan is to tap the I2S lines to the DACs on the AVR and create 8 channels of processed SPDIF. Hopefully there isn't some kind of monolithic Denon ASIC in there. We shall see.

Anyone have any DSP5000 related tips? They are a step up from the M60 mk1's. I also owned a pair of M60 mk2's, which sounded much better than the mk1's. The DSP5000.2's sound better than both I would say. Very detailed and clean. Clean enough that I probably won't recap them any time soon unless I get really bored. I'm pretty good at recapping Meridians now after recapping both Paris of M60's and fixing the hot resistors.

Pretty happy with the purchase. I was looking for a set of DSP7000's but they were hard to find and probably too big.

Distributor3 for surround sound integration, Integra Pre/Pro, DSP5000.2's, DSP5000C.1 24/96, M60 mk1's driven by hot rodded DEQ2496, M33's