SoftwireEngineer wrote: > Mynb, you are the one who has spent so much cash on Meridian stuff, > which buffers the bits everywhere (and so the high price). No wonder you > are oblivious of all digital issues. I run digital straight into a TACT > amp which I sadly dont think has good buffering or even galvanic > isolation for the price I paid - $1400 for it used. List was $3K-5K.
The tact may as well have other issues to . Wonder if not most normal DAC by today's standard have this buffering regardless of price . Price vs performance is not connected in high end and rather flat in small signal electronics and IMO it actually gets worse in the ultra high end you get " exotic " designs to put it nicely that performs worse than Chinese supermarket DVD players for 40$ The bufferings is not what's expensive in meridian it's merely a natural consequence of thier design . You get 30s buffer in a Touch that's more than in my meridian system. One thing M has done for the quite ludicrous amount of $$$ I paid is true upgradable products my ht processor is almost 10 years old ! :) I did hesitate for years before committing that cash I recon that the m systems cost 5-10 times as much as it "should" if it had mass-market appeal and been made in larger series , now it's basically hand built in great Britain by people with decent pay . And actually it was the tech nerd in my that bought it ,it is done " the rigth way " in absolute performance I could done better in hindsight . But back in 1998-2003 the meridian systems was almost the only DVD Audio kit that transported 6ch 24/96 digitally to the processor ? They have a proprietary drm system that allowed them do this . Almost all other DVDA and SACD stuff had 6ch analog out ? That's pretty much broken IMHO ? If want to do some DRC and speaker management , youmhadmto fudge with some of it in the player and some mysterius 6ch analog in on some amps ? Broken by design ? The speakers are not that old ( I bought the dealers demo kit otherwise I could not afford it ) And I'm quite carefree at the moment no one but myself to tend too, otherwise ther would be no m system for me . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98249 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
