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Re: Meridian 588...once more

I'm sorry, I haven't heard any near-current Meridian pieces, so I can't comment on the 598's ability as a transport.

But... I liked the Meridian Digital stuff years ago, and wrote Meridian after I bought the dCS for their recommendations. They suggested the 598 would make a wonderful transport, as well as their CDPs. So you might well have a good pairing there.

As for transport sensitivity... I can say for certain that the Delius is utterly transparent; if the transport ahead of it has a "sound" it will come through loud and clear. The Cary I used initially was a pretty terrible transport for the Delius... All of it's strengths came through, but so did it's negatives (in a big way). The Delius seemed to magnify everything that was bad about the Cary. So yes, I would say it is "sensitive" to transports, or more accurately, it truly is tranparent and the transport's "sound" comes through very clearly.

I have found transport happiness with a CEC TL2X; very smooth and removed the nasty digititis that the Cary (and a few others I tried) seemed to convey.

Bring home the Delius! I think you'll love it, I know I do :)


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