Crion...

A couple of these I'm going to answer ahead of time.



Originally Posted by crion
Would an upgrade to 192Khz DSP speaker connections provide more headroom for balance/volume and not compromising the original 24/96Khz stream present on disc?

No. It's the bit depth not the sampling rate that controls the processing headroom. You have however quadrupled (give or take) your DSP requirements.

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Why doesn't G68 upsample AC3 streams when MRC is disabled? All that DSP power is not put to use..

It's a matter of where the DSP horsepower is used. For all of the processors the digital receiver (or on an 861 each digital receiver card) can either upsample a PCM stream or decode a bitstream format. The remainder of the core is locked to their roles of either BM/TA/Post Processing (cores C+D) or MRC (cores E+F). This is an overall architectural decision. So it would require a dramatic rewrite of the base code to even consider accomplishing this.

If you're familiar with distributed systems and processing then it becomes a lot clearer exactly what Meridian is doing.


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Facility to use two subwoofers (stereo configuration) in a 7 speaker setup?

This is reliant on > 8 channel support. Without it; it's either 5 + multiple subs or 7 + one sub.

Best,


Last edited by John Kotches; 2007-08-30 04:43.
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