Would I recommend Meridian to anyone? To me that is a hard question. I've has a Sooloos system for over 12 months now so FWIW a few thoughts:

The positives:
* superb AQ. I have never heard better.
* convenience at accessing your CDs (see caveat below on the search engine)
* means that you "rediscover" CDs you had forgotten you have in a big collection. Using the "swim" function which randomly selects tracks, reacquaints you with the music so when something attractive is played you can go to listen to the complete album.

The negatives (and there are far more than I'm comfortable with):
* it is VERY expensive (and bear in mind it is a rapidly evolving area so you pay big time by being an early adopter. IMHO far less expensive and maybe more functional systems are around the corner. The $64 million dollar question is which corner, how long to wait, how good, ....)
* at 6 minutes per CD, feeding them in is a very tedious process. You can do the math for how long the 8500 here took.
* the metadata is clunky. In a 3 CD set it will find maybe, one, maybe two, sometimes 3 and possibly none of the cover graphics. Incredibly it might find data for 2 in the set and proclaim the third is an unknown!
* entering in a set can scatter the entries across a few pages if a number are done at the one time. I'm still trying to find some of them.
* sets can be collated into a single icon entry but that is all it achieves. Each item in the set has to be selected to play. I understand Meridian is working on that.
* the search engine is fine for finding artists and works a treat for pop, jazz etc but is quirky and unreliable for classical discs. Search for "Beethoven Symphony 7 " and it displays heaps of entries as each track is listed. Opera searches can be even worse making finding what you want a needle in a haystack process.
* the APP on iPad is primitive, again Meridian are reported as working on that.

Despite the above I'm not sorry I have a Sooloos setup. It has enabled me hours of musical pleasure I would not have experienced otherwise. The reason for this is I'm listening via headphones and can listen to what I like when I like. My wife does like classical music also but her tastes are less adventurous than me, dislikes opera which I love and, more importantly, she objects to the volume I enjoy. I started headphone listening via the CDP but Sooloos is vastly better.

So, do I recommend Sooloos? The answer is a yes, if you can afford it, but be aware that it has quite a few limitations and is not as good as the advertising and review hype would lead you to believe.

John