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A lot of great ideas here, I'd just like to add my support for a few.

These are probably possible in firmware, so you might not even need a MkII :
1 Indicator that music is running through the system
2 Basic standby mode with dimmed display and reduced power consumption.
3 Renaming inputs
4 Naming Dirac presets

These need hardware, so a real MkII:
1 Adding optical out and HDMI input
2 Full standby mode, adding 12V trigger output for controlling amp

The standby mode implementation is really important, Developers need to be careful, since you don't want to lose your interfaces to Roon or DLNA. I have a NAD T758 V3, and the BlueOS implementation is so bad that when it goes into standby, there's about a 50-50 chance that it will not reconnect to Roon on restart. It was simply unusable. So don't do that.

I think adding some of these to the current SHD will make a very good product into an excellent one!

Ability to assign any preset as default for an input, including Dirac state. Example, when I select LAN input, automatically apply Preset 3 with Dirac to on.

Cheers,
Robert

Bravo Nocko!

Literally everything you listed I have wanted at one time or another, and some of them all the time.

I would like to add the ability to down sample the outputs on the SHD Studio. There are some old DACs I would love to use with the SHD, but it always seems to output 96khz no matter what and they simply can't function with this.

Thank you! Let's hope that miniDSP listens...
Nocko!

+ Dante Interface

Nocko! wrote:

Thank you! Let's hope that miniDSP listens...
Nocko!

they listen...
but won't tell you what the mk2 will look like until it hits the shop

Just bought one. Wait a year please (:

HDMI ARC input
Input auto sensing
More TOSlink inputs
Better display showing e.g. bitrate & sampling freq (see hegel, matrix for good looking displays)

No Dirac but FIR filters instead with capacity to run longer filters than OpenDRC's one