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Hot Rod Or Hi Fi

Consider your car for a moment. Did you buy the engine from one manufacturer, the suspension from another and the transmission from someone else? Probably not. Yet this is the way that high-priced hi-fi systems are often assembled. It is generally not known � and impossible to know � how such a composite system will perform.

Components are chosen independently of one another and out of context with the sound of the system as a whole, often on the basis of irrelevant, anecdotal or simply erroneous information. Hardly surprising, then, that the elusive Grail of audio � �musicality� � is difficult, if not impossible, to find in the traditional audiophile arena.

At best, hi-fis like this are not integrated systems but hot-rods: they do one thing well. This is why expensive systems often only sound their best playing back one type of music.

Meridian believes in the complete, integrated system, and that a system should be judged on how well the entire package performs in the real world. This is why all our components explicitly speak the same electric and acoustic language. While their performance with other manufacturers� equipment is exemplary, they positively sing when placed in chorus with equipment of their own pedigree.

In almost thirty years of existence, Meridian has learned not only the parameters upon which a superb-quality total system is based: we have also refined our capability to design the individual components that comprise such a system.

Don�t forget, a Meridian system can be as simple as a CD player and a pair of DSP speakers. Because the amps and control are in the speakers, that�s all you need.