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Originally posted by howiebrou:
Ah ha. This is the sort of info I was looking for. A digital pre-amp changing analogue to digital and then back to analogue. Sounds like a bad way to go.....

That means the i moniker will solely be for using the 808 as an external DAC for another digital source. The cost is going up!

howiebrou
It should act as a good preamp for digital sources as well. You might want to check with Meridian that they didn't put analog bypass in it, it would be a first but at that price who knows.

It has an analog preamp in it. It's just that it likely has a digital source switcher like all Meridian digital processors. So it converts all inputs to digital first.

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