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"This is the great thing about the market place, Meridian doesn`t do SACD, others do, and you can spend your money and take your chance."
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So far I've invested $30,000 in Meridian gear -- not as much as many, but a big chunk of change in my neighborhood. At that price, I think Mr. Stuart could provide me with the opporunity to purchase an upgrade to allow my 568 to accept SACD analog inputs.

I really don't care who wins the pissing contest between SACD and DVD-A. They are both superior to red book CD and I think it's exteremly shortsighted of Meridian to hold us hostage to it's stake in DVD-A.

Sony controls SACD and Sony controls a lot of great music. I don't think it's going away. I'm not sure the same can be said for Meridian. It's really hard to justify laying out the big bucks when in a relatively short time the norm will be universal players that will handle both formats. Don't get me wrong, I think Mr. Stuart's a genius, but it won't be long until folks get fed up waiting for Meridian to accept that there is more than one high-res solution.

Sorry for the inflamitory language - but, it really rags me that I have to go to a friend's house to listen to SACD's on his Tweeter mid-fi system. He, of course, is very gracious and never rubs it in. Well, not too much.



[This message has been edited by harbor53 (edited 01-05-2003).]