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Hi all
I've hankered after Meridian gear since my stepfather had a pair of M2's back in the mid 1980's and I've just bought a pair of recapped 24/96 DSP5000's to start my journey with. So far they are being driven directly off a Raspberry Pi which is acting as a Roon endpoint. (there is a TV connected to the 2nd input so I can use them with films/broadcast/Blu-ray).
I'd like to add to the system, and ultimately build a HT setup, and to that end have also acquired an 18bit DSP5000C (which is not a lot of use at the moment - I'd hoped to use it as a soundbar whilst saving for more stuff, but that doesn't work!).
I'm doing this on what most of you guys will think is a shoestring, and was thinking to add a Suround decoder or some form to make a 3 channel setup as a first step. and I'm confused as to what will sound ok, or be worth getting.
I've found a 565z3 (which has the 4.3 firmware on it), a G61Rsl, a 861v2 and a G68 (not sure which version, but it was driving a bunch of 18bit speakers) so far. I've listed them in price order and whilst the 565 is fairly cheap, the others are to me a significant chunk of change. The G61 is SpeakerLink - so I'd need to break that out to drive my speakers (although running a cat6 cable to the rears is appealing) I think this is reasonalby straight forward (I'm a reasonable chap with a soldering iron - and there were a couple of circuits posted in threads on here), but I don't know what to make of the 861v2 or the G61/G68 options.
Oh and I've failed to spot a 568.2 which is what I thought (after reading much of this forum) I was after.
Can anyone offer some pearls please? (and I can't afford a 861v8 with matched D8KSE's !)
Thanks
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