Meridian Unplugged - Powered by MrTechGuy.co.uk Forums Discussion Meridian - Systems Swapping from G98DH to G06/G08

For CD replay you need low jitter and/or low jitter mitigation. You also need apodizing at some point in the chain.

Meridian espouses upsampling (and therefore apodizing) at the earliest point possible during reproduction (G08.2, 808.2) and this is very true if you don't have adequate de-jittering further down the chain. However, I am of the opinion (for the moment, at least) that this advice is for jitter mitigation purposes (only) and that, in a full Meridian system, there is enough de-jittering in downstream components (HD621, processor, DSP speakers) to allow for upsampling after the source without significan, if any, performance penalty. Others mileage varies on this.