Originally Posted by Rolski
Originally Posted by dr.bill
8k.2's are:
Way more dynamic. Way more involving. Superior bass by a not insignificant amount. Tighter. More open soundstage. More expansive. More enveloping. More detailed....
Without wishing to sound like a stuck record, or become a pain in the *ss : why ?
There must be technical reasons why there's so much of a difference if the 7.2k's & the 8.2k's are so closely related in terms of components & size ?
Im not an expert so just going from memory but IIRC that someone once said (Bob at HH2?) that the 8000's were the only speaker in the Meridian range that had the volumetric capacity to reproduce some frequencies such as those needed to reproduce the full dynamic range of a grand piano. I also believe that Meridian use the grand piano as a reference for their listening tests. In my memory, I also recall that someone (Bob at HH2? or maybe one of the Bristol demo's) also said that if you can reproduce the full range of a grand piano, you can reproduce anything. Apparently.

Meridian owner since 1992
Prime & PSU, Focal Elear headphones, Roon (ROCK 8Gi5 NUC), Explorer 1 & 2, F80. 200/203, various Sonos (via Roon).