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My guess also is a higher-end Zeppelin Air-Sooloos Zone, manufactured in China.

If it is a Zeppelin or Sonos like product, it will be interesting to see what features they include and at what associated price. A lower price seems appealing, but only makes a dent into the entry level if it can operate without Sooloos while still being feature competitive with something like the Zeppelin. If it can also give users a reason to peek into Sooloos, then that's an interesting step. Otherwise, if it isn't meant to be an iPod dock and rather primarily a speaker with a built-in Sooloos zone, I think we're looking at M80 price territory - at least.

Jeff

That sounds and looks like the best prediction. Meridian has a very complete product line, but the M80 is kind of aging. Not much can be done with it, but it goes after a large market of people that want high end audiophile system for less than $3000 market. personally, I think the actual shape might be consistent to what they have for the other products in the current line, but they have to make the overall appearance attractive to the market they are going after.

Either way, I am sure it will make lots of people happy with a small percentage of people wanting more.

As a side note, the first thing I thought when I saw the teaser shot was a product that is far from Meridian, but I was still reminded nonetheless:



I'm sure my thoughts will change when we get a view of the whole thing, but I found it funny that I thought of this. For those wondering, those are the Ferox portable speakers from Razer.

Jeff

The current Meridian range is missing a wireless Sooloos all-in-one ala Logitech Boombox, ironic as the apparent technology leaders Logitech are now moving into AV streaming...

I do feel the original Meridian company died the day they bottled the 880 music server production.

Why use blue LEDs? It's the end of the light spectrum that Autistic spectrum disorder sufferers have a heightened sensitivity to, and high achievers (the "1%" potential M customers) are disproportionately affected by the condition. Strange...

Judging by the number of blue LED Christmas lights I see around, this colour is not just popular with the gifted.

Yes, unfortunately it causes migraines for the sufferers so you can diagnose from a distance anyone walking around B&Q wearing sunglasses...

Why at that point exactly?

It's remarkable, by the way, how many of the selling points of the 880 server ended up in Sooloos.

IMHO Until that time Meridian were the true innovators of digital technology in the home consumer hi-fi market with the others in the industry playing catch up.

Since then Logitech (ex Slim Devices) have led the music server field. M were left to play catch up, having to buy Sooloos off the shelf from a third party and only performing minor performance tweaks since.

The all digital amps (Sharp/NAD/TACT) would once have been Meridian territory but now M concentrate on luxury car installations and "all in ones" like the F80/M80.

I had something similar in format back in the early 80's... hardly cutting edge

They make nice projectors too but hardly within the range of the typical home consumer.

Shame. I loved my 208. It made a mockery of the NAIM guys, racks bursting with a myriad of boxes and cables.. The 208 sounded better and was more stylish too! Remember the launch of the M10's with multiple side firing drivers? Wow! Space age...

We are so close the the Elephant, with that pic, all we can see is grey...........

Exciting times, Chris

I'm not Meridian's greatest fan at the moment, but that is patently rubbish: Sooloos/ID40 is arguably the finest digital source available; replay from the Ensemble and Source One clearly isn't.