Originally Posted by VinceHoffman
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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With Meridian external decoding solutions you have Meridian doing the decoding (I consider that plus), transmitting in MHR and Meta Data being passed with the decoded material. With non Meridian sources you won't have these and I would prefer, if the processor can handle the codec, have it decode. I suspect the results would be better.

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