Originally Posted by George Mills
I'm curious if a movie has only a compressed sound track what will happen with a player modded with this board?

That is, if a movie only has a compressed soundtrack I would much rather the Meridian decode it, wouldn't you?

I sure wouldn't want to have to config the player each time per movie.

I suppose this would be true even if Meridian's solution is only LPCM.

Why would you prefer your M Pre/Pro to decode it George? Thats not how Meridian has been dealing with DD and DTS decoding in their current player and pre/pro pairings. I think you'd still want the player to decode DD and DTS internally and output over the 3x SPDIF so your M pre/pro can upsample the PCM bitstream like a Meridian player.

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