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hi Shawn,

i am feeding an 861 into 5 DSP speakers.

can i place an order for the 6 channel?

james

Latest (11-Nov-08) information from Oppo on output resolution switching in the 980:

"can i place an order for the 6 channel?"

Not yet as I don't have them available yet. I am hoping to have them ready within 2 weeks if they are delivered on time.

Thanks,

Shawn

I found where I had read this. VK had sent me an email with some info he quoted from PMs in another forum.

"Just checked and mine is V1.6c. The problems I have are currently:-

a) when it engages with sound I get a horrible crackle sound for a second.

b) connecting it to any device in the chain with DVI (such as my Lumagen scaler), disables the audio."

So this was occuring on an earlier firmware release. I think Cypress added analog muting to their boxes to handle the crackling in later versions. I do not know if they addressed having DVI in the chain.

Shawn

All installed and working. Now I need to play.

Cool George! Looking forward to reading what you think.

It definitely sounds better (similar to your improvements) and it varies on every movie like you said. But I need to verify levels etc.

Fifth Element PCM 5.1 sounded damn near close to DD (@ 448 no less).

House of flying daggers (has Chineese PCM 5.1) drum dance sounded way better (if you can believe that). But when I switched to DD English it sounded worse than I recall. Not sure if it was same issue you ran into with player decoding DD (sounded dull). It's such a pain to switch back to Meridian for Decoding to compare.

Ice Age II is DTS MA (I can't switch audio on this in the movie to regular DTS, have to switch back to bitstream in setup menus).

I tested using Video Essentials HD (which is TrueHD) Levels were all around 76 (with Meridian at 87). Except LFE was off the scale (my guess is 86). I had it in Cinema with LFE Offset 0. I suspect Video Essentials didn't do LFE correctly.

PS3 is excellent how it shows stats on the screen (in the black bars so you know exactly what you are listening to).

No pops or cracks switch tracks or codecs. Did get small pop loading some discs in PS3.

SACD works in PS3 but I only have one disc that I'm not too crazy about.

VK and I updated the Wiki page on HDMI solutions please review (Shawn, Ron, VK, anybody).

PM me or post suggestions here if you are not a Wiki Author.

http://www.meridianunplugged.com/wiki/index.php/HDMISolutions

Do you have to send the video output from the CLUX to a display?

Yes, if I unplug the HDMI from the display the audio stops.

You could probably find a cheap box to sink it.

Oy. THere's never a truly easy way is there?

George,

Glad you are up and running now. Sorry about that additional delay, 1.8c was a bit of a curveball.

The Wiki looks good. The only comments I'd make is that I have done a few other players then the ones listed. I keep a list at:

http://switch-box.com/S_PDIF_installation/Entries/2008/9/25_Equipment_list.html

That address changes if I alter the date on it, I need to make a more permanent address for that list. A couple of those players are not recommended though due to what they do internally.

The other thing a modded player does for you is eliminate the worries about EDID issues and the need to have an active sink which would be good for a music source.

Have fun,

Shawn