Originally Posted by David Haworth
Question to GaryArthur: If your dealer had made it clear to you when you were buying that the meridian solution didn't support 7.1 discrete input, would you still have bought it? By the sounds of it, you got a G68, HD621 and a full 7.1 set of speakers, which is some serious money to be mis-sold on. I appreciate that you might be perfectly happy with it now, but when you were choosing would that issue have given you serious cause to choose the classe and an alternate choice of power amps and speakers?
David I'm definitely not perfectly happy now. I am still a bit miffed. It was my hope to be finding new positive things with my new Meridian equipment. Would have been delighted to be saying "Wow it has even more capability than I thought". Having said that, the G68 has been incorporated into my system for more than a month and I like the look, I like the MRC, and I love the sound.

Could I have ended up with a different processor had I realized the lack of discrete 7.1 in the G68? In a word - yes. Maybe even probably - yes. When I listened to the Classe it was not in my setup and everything is different so my own prejiduces invade my judgement (please read Dan Ariely's book "Predictably Irrational" for a better understanding of this).

My old processor was an 8 year old Proceed AVP2 and it is now being used in my Los Angeles office. I believe the lead engineer on the AVP2 development was also the lead engineer on the Classe SSP 800 development.

My main speakers are Martin Logan CLX's and the rest of my system choices have been driven by the ML's.

Can I learn to love my new Meridians? I certainly hope so. The most important thing - sound is impressive.

I jumped into this thread based upon a $20 purchase of the movie "Bangkok Dangerous" which was listed as 7.1. I cannot comment on the quality of the 7.1 because as it turns out the Meridian G68 combines the sides and rears and feeds you what it thinks is best.

What bothers me most now is the creeping feeling that Meridian is not listening.

(P.S. for David - Go ManU, Rooney, Rooney, Rooney. I'm a fan)


My Kit: Trinnov Altitude 32,Oppo BDP 203, Sony 600es, Martin Logan Neoliths Mains with VTL Siegfried II's, ML CLX's, ML Renaissance, 5 ML Theaters,13 ML Vanquish, 6 ML Edges, 6 ML Axis' 8 Velodyne DD-18+'s, Pass Labs 600.8,Pass Labs 160.8, Pass labs 160.5, Bryston 14B-SST, 6B-SST,6 Bryston 9BSST^2's, 14' Stewart Screen, Berkely Alpha DAC RS