Thanks everyone for the welcome, especially thanks Steve for your knowlege, reading between the lines you may have already been done the path I thinking below ?

Can I ask a silly question has anyone apprached Meridian and framed it as as we are keen to keep the MC200's and MC600's in service long-term what I’d really like to know is whether Meridian would be willing to give us the software needed to keep these boxes alive now that they’re effectively legacy products.

We know the MC200 / MC600 (and related Sooloos hardware) is basically a small x86 machine running a BusyBox-style Linux OS with Meridian’s stack on top. The hardware is solid and the sound is excellent, but the weak point long-term is clearly the spinning system drive and the closed OS image.

Has anyone already tried this direct approach with Meridian, or has contacts there who might be open to this kind of discussion?

I know I'm putting this out there into the either buy hey it would be amazing if they said yes smile