Meridian Unplugged - Powered by MrTechGuy.co.uk Forums Discussion Meridian - Systems Market / Personal Confidence in Meridian

I'll wade in (and try to keep it on topic..)

Meridian Audio has grown in interesting new directions (Car Audio, in Range Rovers and McClaren super sports cars), new products (DACs, smaller speakers, round speakers, affordable Sooloos endpoints, new in-wall speakers).

Hopefully these developments will lead to (or has led already) to a profitable, healthy company, one that has enough money to invest in critical things like R&D and continual development of our beloved products.

In the United States, Meridian as a brand does not have as many followers as say, McIntosh with it's tube amps etc. But I feel that typical jazz lovers who would listen to Coltrane's Naima or "My Favorite Things" from Coltrane at Newport would fall like love with my (or your) DSP8000's.

Until the DAC's came out, there were no products that were an "impulse buy" with Meridian's "house sound". This is changing. Hopefully the Explorer and Director DAC's will introduce a new generation to the brand.

I've talked in depth to my HT dealer. The Meridian processor is no longer the one he "pushes". He finds the side-firing 8K's and 7.2K's harder to sell into a HT job. And Yet...

The DSP speakers are a cognitive leap for the average HT guy. Ditch separate amplifiers and put the DSP's in the speaker! Just listen, alright! Listen with your eyes closed to tracks you love. Does the music not feel alive ?

Of course M is not the same company it was... in many ways it is healthier ( more product lines, intro-level products, finally a HDMI solution that works, new DSP techologies to upsell like EBA and in-walls). a Pono tie-in next year might further invigorate it.

It might never play the latest SONY codec or 24/384 PCM. I have thousands of CD's it will play back, and play back superbly.