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Meridian has always been a company that has made engineering advances, invented things, and held strong positions about what it believes is the truth about sound reproduction. It is therefore the last company likely to bow to market pressure when it sees solid engineering reasons not to.

You have to see this in realistic context: individuals with the financial wherewithal to buy Meridian products generally already have collections of music, in some cases large ones. Those collections will mostly be CD.

If you believe the hifi press, the whole world only listens to 384kHz and DSD. Like most things in the press, it is a position held to sell new technology. Because without a new format there is no need for everyone to replace all their equipment.

Personally I see EBA, for example, as a very interesting development. It is an engineering and audio advance, only possible in DSP speakers (good thing the Scottish company just invented them), and something which could conceivably be rolled out to other DSP speakers. It's also something which improves the gear we've already got, the exact opposite of the demand to buy a new system to play 384kKz or DSD files. This is the kind of engineering work we hope for from Meridian.