861v4 now home, fully configured and operational.
Had a minor issue with needing to buy new cabling to connect it to a laptop for configuration, but otherwise, fairly plain sailing.
Looks like this:
It's in situ now, so that photo is a better representation that you'll get with it hiding in the corner.
Only running with two sources at the moment, i.e.
- My Sooloos streamer, for music
- A Meridian HD621, which collates my HDMI AV sources (PS3, Xbox360 and a Pioneer BD player) and does some clever jitter reduction
Sure enough, has the Meridian "style" of sound, but is even better than both the 568.2 and G68. I could blather on about the usual rubbish you'd read in mags, but lets just say it's more of the same goodness and is just lovely and enjoyable to listen to, as you'd expect of something that was for a while one of the more expensive processors on the market.
So, happy bunny here! Now, off to listen to the Dio tribute album I bought today.