MJC - I am one of whom you speak. Its just that my analogue amps are all Meridian, too. When I bought my B&W 803Ds I did listen to the DSP6ks and 7ks. Until I had my G98, I was running a Toshiba source into the system. The processor really managed to polish the sound but I still noticed a big improvement when i went over to something with a much better transport. A theta or Ayre will have that. Id be interested to hear how one of these sounds compared to a G series player going MHR.