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At 50% off retail for new, which is what I was offered, I found the G08 fairly decent. Not syrupy, if anything it was unemotional and not the most detailed. Certainly not as good as the Reimyo or what I have now but for an ignorant cus as myself OK.

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Why, what's inside them? I didn't find their sound syrupy at all. My biggest complaint about the G08 is that it took some serious matching -- more so than other systems I've heard. Is that because the analogue section is 'weak'?

On the inside is an OEM switching supply (costs around 50$ online for 1 unit), a horrible DVD-Rom drive with a small PCB at the back with the CPU's doing the upsampling and D/A conversion and an opamp based output stage. I should have pictures of it somewhere but I'm having trouble finding them.

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On the inside is an OEM switching supply (costs around 50$ online for 1 unit), a horrible DVD-Rom drive with a small PCB at the back with the CPU's doing the upsampling and D/A conversion and an opamp based output stage. I should have pictures of it somewhere but I'm having trouble finding them.

I got pics:

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The op amps on the output section are OPA275.

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Offtopic but PFKMan does your:

--> Things that have great synergy: <--

section expand and grow more terrifying on a day to day basis? I used to think Trose's sig was terrifying and awkward.

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meridian rsa whats the difference? ;)
:palm:

I give up. I'm not going to defend a company based on you-all's impressions on one product, but they do some cutting edge stuff with, for example, their digital active speakers, and MLP Lossless compression (which, if I understand correctly, they developed). The comparison to RSA is not apt.

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:palm:

I give up. I'm not going to defend a company based on you-all's impressions on one product, but they do some cutting edge stuff with, for example, their digital active speakers, and MLP Lossless compression (which, if I understand correctly, they developed). The comparison to RSA is not apt.

Doesn't Ray use Meridian's in all his rigs? That's why I posted it. I wasn't being serious, either to Meridian or RSA for that matter. Meridian's biggest problem seems to be cutting edge prices on their less than cutting edge products.

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Inside of the Krell SACD standard. Equal number of parts on the other side of the board, more output stages needed since it's multi-channel SACD. You could make an argument that this is a simpler design than the Meridian, of course that's going to fall on deaf ears.

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I'm not deaf, but I am dumb. Why simpler?

Most of those parts are for the discrete I/V or output stage. An op-amp crams it all into a tiny chip. A discrete Grado RA-1 would probably look like a very complex design

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