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You are absolutely right and I have to change my recommendation! If you already have an 861v4 or G68 then you should get an 808i.2 and not an 808.2. This is, of course, assuming that the 808i.2 can upsample 3rd party sources.

Edit: I want to caveat the above post. The 808i.2 is the only Meridian product currently available that can apodize a stereo signal prior to a Meridian processor. If you just want CD, then the "i" is, naturally, superflous. Justifying the "i" depends, then, on the number of non-CD digital stereo sources you have. In my system, I have a Squeezebox and satellite receiver; everything else is multi-channel. It's almost certainly not worth it for the satellite box, but that does make the 808i.2 a very expensive upsampler for the Squeezebox (I listen through EAC ripped CD through the Squeezebox than than via CD itself).