Originally Posted by George Mills
It sounds like your right in that some how it knows the downstream can't handle the DSD and switched to PCM.

But I'd depend more on the player saying your playing the DSD layer or not than the Meridian.

I'm told that as long as the Meridian is sending the correct audio EDID info my BR player (Oppo) will convert DSD to PCM before outputting despite the DSD SACD setting.

In any event, you think that there can be situations when the Meridian stream display indicates that it is receiving a certain signal (e.g.mulit-channel while playing an MC SACD) but it is wrong? How/why would it "get fooled?"

The answer to the above question is of general interest to me but also more specifically I am trying to determine what is going on between my TIVO and the HD621.

I've seen some cases where, based on the information pop up box on the TV I thought I was watching a DD 2.0 broadcast but the Meridian stream display indicates AC3 3/2.1 (ie DD5.1). I would trust the Meridian over the information about a show that is broadcast in the information box from Comcast but I don't know for sure.

Last edited by jack d; 2009-04-17 14:16.
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