Dynaudio do and the engineering of the drive units is very impressive and a major factor in why I use them, even the little ones have massive voice coils.
...On another point, are the drive units Meridian uses built to spec or off the shelf?
The 70s/80s Meridian actives used Kef Drive Units that were off the shelf, B110B, T52 etc.
Steve.
Actually the drivers used in Meridian's early actives weren't "off-the-shelf". All the Kef B110s for example, were high power versions with larger motors than those used in the LS3/5A or as midrange drivers in many other companies' high-end speaker designs of the time. On top of that, Meridian performed detailed measurements on each driver to make for perfect pair matching and retained this info so that if you smoked a driver, a matched replacement could be obtained. I guess the final point would be that at the time, Kef's raw drivers were considered aongst the very best available and used in many manufacturer's flagship and higher end speaker designs.
Insofar as the original discussion goes, the bass and mid drivers Meridian use, while not being edge of the art are still very high quality units. I have always wondered why Meridian hasn't went with a higher quality tweeter. After having previously owned various iterations of the Merlin VSMs which have always used Dynaudio's best Esotar tweeter, The tweeter used in all the DSPs seems a little lacking in comparison.
Happy Trails!
Vince@Freewheelcycle.com
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