stacey - your point about everybody being shortsighted is well taken, though the scales are clearly not tipped in Meridian's favor.
everybody is (not irrationally) concerned that Meridian will go to its grave building the world's best betamax players, right? right now SACD sure looks a lot more like VHS than DVD-A does.
i don't see it here in this thread, but there IS a Meridian solution to this problem, though 861 only. the IA40 card will do AtoD at 20/48 on up to two six-channel analog inputs. the IA45 will do 24/96 AtoD on one six-channel analog input. apparently you still get most if not all of the great bass management and other type processing features (ie: it treats it like a native Meridian digital six-channel signal once it's
in the box).
that's not of any help for 568 owners, but definitely one of the reasons i chose to trade my 568.1 on an 861.3 instead of upgrading to a 568.2.
fwiw, i've yet to test it out or do DVD-A comparisons with it.
it seems to me that they should be able to sell an outboard box (think "519") that takes 6 analog RCA in and outputs MHR. it couldn't be that expensive given the cost of an IA40 or IA45.
doody.
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