My experience of Meridian dealers is very poor. They seem to know very little about what they are dealing with. You ask a question and they say they will ring back after ringing Meridian themeselves. I know more about it than they do. I recently went to hear a pair of DSP 7000's fed a signal from an 800 thru a 861. The 7000's were the only speakers attached to the 861 which was setup for 5.1 and using ambisonics as the DSP mode! After sales service has been very good though. I have gone from 500+562+2*5000's, added 565+2*5500+5000c, then 596+861, and most recentely 800. They or merdian must be doing something right (you decide who).If i did not know what i was after and how to sort out problems myself (or by contacting Meridian directly/or here) i would would have been very frustrated and had a poor opinion of merdian gear. I would say merdain have got my business once i went multi channel despite the dealer.

Regards
Peter

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