"Trevor Wilson" wrote in message

"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message
...

HFN is sadly declined these days.

All those sighted listening evaluations have ruined their ears.

I recently bought a 575A to replace
my trusty 515 for movies, and on CD it's sonically
indistinguishable
from the Meridian 588. That's good enough for me.

I have the predecessor 563. As Keith says it will play darn near
anything in its native mode.

**The Meridian must be crap then. I suggest you perform several,
simple actions on your Pie-in-ear.

Here comes the knee-jerk tweako-freako violence with a soldering iron:

* Dump the muting transistors. Use nothing, or relays.

Why?

* Dump the output ICs and use something decent.

Why?

* Dump the series resistors after the output ICs.

Why?

Those actions will bring your Pie-in-ear up the level of a Rotel
RCD951.

Where's the reliable evidence that the Rotel sounds better or even any
different than a 563, 575 or whatever?