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In Reply to: not really I'm afraid... posted by chris e. on June 16, 2003 at 01:59:45:

And Meridian's Trifield mode alone, in many people's opinion, is worth the price. Check out AHC's review of the 861/800 in TAS, where he said the 800 player could output 5ch directly on its own, but he would opt to get the 861 just for its Trifield capability. That's poppling an extra $20k+ just for that feature.

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you may be right depending on the music - chris e. 02:08:43 06/17/03 (0)
I hadn't thought about the 565 for music and HT (as I mentioned, I use separate systems). It may depend upon the type of listening (format and music style) as well. The rotel does a 5 channel pass-through for sacd/dvd-a while the 565 doesn't so this is a disadvantage. For analog, the 565 doesn't do a passive pass-through (perhaps the new model does?) but I'm not sure the rotel does either. Finally, for music type, I listen to a great deal of jazz much of which is mono recording so something like the Meridian trifield hinders more than helps.
Sure is complicated, isn't it?

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