Originally Posted by VirusKiller
If, as we have discussed and seems likely, speaker FIFO buffering is limited in its effectiveness, then the 800 and 808(.1) will have a *clear* advantage vs. any other player on the market when fed directly to DSP speakers as these are the only players that upsample, resolution enhance, *and* transfer the upsampled digital via MHR.

VK, i don't know if it has any significance to the discussion here, but when I asked Bob Stuart at the Bristol show whether I should connect my 800/808 directly to the DSP8000s instead of through the 861, without hesitation he said 'Through the 861 of course'.

I do not know if technical considerations were in his mind at the time or not.