Nice to meet people (Simon, David, Jerome, Bill...others like the guy from Jersey City). Thanks for coming out in the pouring rain!

We split into two groups, the first group (my group) was given the Sooloos demonstration by Ken, the director of product marketing for Meridian USA. There were over 10,000 albums loaded onto that Sooloos, several TwinStores on the LAN. It was speedy and the User interface is first rate. A new AC200 driving 2 5200 DSP speakers, it sounded great ! Q: Why kill Trifield ? A: AC200 is not for multi-speaker room, for office or smaller spaces. It did sound great, and I love Trifield!

The new six-zone Sooloos box was displayed. Impressive number of outputs, a high-speed backplane to allow multi-zone sync (not displayed).

We ripped a brand new CD i bought, 3 minutes on-the dot!

We asked about multi-channel high-bitrate support for Sooloos, Ken wouldn't commit to a Yes or No, sorry Carl!

Great demo, a desirous object ...

Next up, DSP3200 speakers, in white, in the home theater.
Ryan explained M. has been asked for years and years to replicate the "top part" of the DSP8K's and make them into a speaker. They took that idea (DSP3200 look a lot like the top of a DSP8K ...) and some of the R&D of the M80 speaker to make a great sounding bookshelf speaker.

So, no subwoofer, stereo direct from Sooloos SL into 861V6 ...

They started off with AC/DC, when into Jazz prog with Foursquare, played some Techno which made us cringe collectively, and played some Jane Monheit.

I use passive bookshelf speakers (Ascend 170's...) and these blew them away...impressive soundstage , went pretty low bass-wise, no distortion or clipping ... I'd like to hear them with my subwoofer and Bass management engaged, but it was great to listen without in the HT room.

I kept looking around, seeing the size of the speakers and listening to the music, amazed at the sound coming out of them!

Then we switched to the DSP8K's and played some more music, they sounded even more amazing, amazing detail in the mid range and high end, brought out music to its full potential with the RC. To fill larger rooms, I would buy these :-) !

The projector worked fine, we watched a selection of scenes from Baraka, Apocolypto, the Police Blu-Ray (sounded amazing on the 8K's..),
I am not a Projector guy but this looked great and sounded amazing.

They have been successful selling the high-end projector to rich director types (people like Steven Spielberg or P. Diddy I guess...). When I win the lottery... The glass used takes 3 months to manufacture, something like 2 months just to cool down....

A wonderfully entertaining evening. Thanks to Kal of HTOLI, Ryan, Ken and all the Hitchhikers and NY customers who came out. Let's do it again soon!

-MJT


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