Hi,

Rather than a week apart, I saw the Meridian 810 and the HT5000 at the same time at Audio High in Mountain View, CA, about 16 months ago. Both projectors were running simultaneously from the same source and projected onto the same screen. The output of first one, then the other, was blocked by an opaque object to facilitate the comparison. The 810's imagaes were stunning and clearly superior to the HT5000's in detail, color saturation, and 3-dimensionality. The differences were not subtle--at least to this observer's eye (I mean eyes). ;-)

Trinnov Altitude32 (AL32-816), Meridian 271 and Meridian speakers.