Originally Posted by Robert.W
Why you want better driver in the 8k?
Are they are bad,are the result are bad?
The concept of a digital speaker is different of an active speaker and a passive speaker.
You dont need expensive chassis with flat frequency response and superwide frequency range.
You even need the same effiency to match the voliume of the different chassis.
You dont need more chassis just to adjust the volume to the other cahssis that are working in a different frequency range.
You do not need care of the phase of the chassis.You do not need take care of the placement in timing of the chassis,
iam speaking here that all chassis first wave front hit the listeners at the same time.
All that you can do near perfect "just" with a proper sw and hardware.You do not need big lossy frequency crossovers,
you just need very short speaker cables to to each amplifier top control the chassis.
You dont need power amplifier with expensive and ugly cable laying around just to heat up the frequency crossovers and the remaining power for the "good" chassis.
You can extend the low range of the speakers in a way that other solution as digital speaker never can do proper.
So for what you need all that expensive and lightyears behind clever concepts speaker manufacturers and parts of their product?
Read and think to understand the difference what M makes and what all other makes.
For example "your" lotus speakers costs 125.000 U$ and have the a "big innovation"- active crossovers..
So after decades that M have that in their speakers, Lotus have some now..
"real" impressive...
I dont say M speakers are perfect, there is still some parts to improve,
but M dont need support from old fashioned(but in the bad way) designers/developers/manufactures,
they are not real competitors.
Sorry, when i maybe to emotional here, but that is my point of view.

First I'll preface these comments with the observation that I very much enjoy all the Meridian loudspeakers I own and on the whole consider them to be very good performers. Now that we have that out of the way...

DSP based crossovers can not eliminate sonic artifacts due to cone or dome break-up modes and other non-linear or resonant behavior. Or reduce whatever harmonic distortion and compression is intrinsic to the driver design. While I very much enjoy my DSP6k fronts and the DSP5k rears in my big rig, the driver quality is clearly the limiting factor in these design. I've owned other passive loudspeakers with much better tweeters (Dynaudio Esotar) and superior mid-bass drivers that despite being saddled with (well designed) passive crossovers clearly outperformed my DSP6ks in some respects. I'd love to see what Meridian could do if they really pulled out the stops and used some of the best raw drivers currently available.

Happy Trails!
MTB Vince

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