I understand about region free on Meridian kit - I just thought that region coding was built into the ROM drive itself (I had to flash the region code on a DVD ROM that I once had otherwise I was limited to 5 changes if doing it via Windowz).

If you changed to a non Meridian spec drive I was wondering if this would affect region encoding built into the drive.

Meridian owner since 1992
Prime & PSU, Focal Elear headphones, Roon (ROCK 8Gi5 NUC), Explorer 1 & 2, F80. 200/203, various Sonos (via Roon).