Meridian Unplugged - Powered by MrTechGuy.co.uk Forums Discussion Meridian - Systems To DSP8000 owners : if you had an infinite budget, would you upgrade....?

Partially a fun question for a change, but with a slightly serious intent behind it :-

If you have DSP8000s - perhaps more particularly a stereo pair - and you were suddenly the benefactor of a colossal sum of money, would you upgrade / change your speakers (apart from all the other things you'd do with the cash of course !) ?

And if so, what would you change them for ? And why - is there something lacking / not to your taste - something that bears improvement ? Or are they truly the pinnacle of transducer perfection....?

I'm hoping there will be some interesting answers - and that they'll provoke some interesting discussion....

Interesting question � regarding a �colossal� amount of money, wouldn�t one get better satisfaction if one bought ever HHer a pair of 8K�s better still 2 pair, a centre and a 861v6

Always fancied auditioning the Kef Muon but I believe they are over 100K so what�s the point.

Get the perfect room built to house it all.

I wonder if there is a 8200 or 9000 or however it goes in development......

That would be nice and more people would upgrade and the price of second hand 8Ks would fall.

Maybe something that goes potently below 20Hz for movies. But for now it's more productive to just add an IB subwoofer setup for LFE channel or something similar to go to 5Hz rumbles...

I have often said that, even if I were a billionaire, DSP8000s would still be my speaker choice. Haven't heard anything (and I've heard a lot of speakers) that does everything as well.

6 million dollars will get you this;



http://decware.com/audio-blogs/2008/02/23/6-million-dollar-stereo-system/

Not as compact as a Meridian system I know.

Yes, but does it sound any good....?!

Hence the "condition" of only referring to a stereo set-up in my question. If it was "no holds barred" then we'd be here all night / week / year - and I'm really trying to find out about how highly people regard DSP8000s.

I would have had the 8000s upgraded with:

- Seas optimized the speakers with there latest range of speakers supporting 192kHz
- Made them 192 KHz / 24 bit
- Upgrade to even bigger power supply
- Upgrade the internal amplifiers (have Duncan at Chapter design something)
- Upgrade to pure silver wiring


PerS

Disappointing. For $6M, I'd settle for nothing less than a tiger on the sofa.

Given a colossal amount, I would buy Meridian Audio.....and make some changes!!

Regards I