Just wanted to add about parts in particular, Meridian choose parts based on what they are building, not what the press and tech world say people should use. For many years Meridian used an old philips decoder chip in the 500 series CD gear even many years after philips stopped making it, Bob said in one interview the reason was because I offered lower noise in their implementation. At the time more modern chips were better at some things etc, could be programmed etc, but for his purpose the old one was great so thats what he used.
Many companied do it, Micromega always did a similar thing, crack open their gear and you find latest and greatest input receivers, driver IC's, top quality everything, flip the board and you will be expecting to find cutting edge Dacs but no you find 10 year old dacs originally made for something else, probably a boom box
You could give ten designers the same box of parts, but you would get back 10 different sound pieces of kit. Tech, parts change it's how their used which is interesting.
Same applies to drive unit, they use what they think works best. I have rewired my M60's but to be honest I would never touch the drivers, they sound fantastic as they are, the top end on these is sweet and smooth and I've heard many speakers that have been retrofitted with other / higher quality drivers and the end result is normally out of balance in some way. The tweeters in M gear are great, built well do the job nicely, I've always found rewiring speakers gets the last drop of performance out of them, same with M stuff. Meridian stuff also uses good wire straight from the factory a lot better than many speaker companies I've seen.
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