Hello,

New owner of old DSP5000's here. On a half-whim I bought a pair of DSP5000's. They are 18-bit and a bit tatty, but only cost me �499. A few hours of elbow grease later and all the scratches are gone, the fading is gone, and all polished up to a very respectable finish. Very happy with these!

Anyway, I didn't notice in the auction pictures that these had granite plinths attached to the bottom - came as a little surprise when I went to pick them up. Having looked at other photos I don't see any others with plinths. Am I to take it that these are not Meridian original plinths? Good or bad? Anyone recognise these? I took some snaps:

DSP5000 plinths

I also opened them up to check the electronics, as I am going to assume these are 20 years old. Nothing bad there I can see (apart from the odd spider's web). If you're interested, you can see pics of the guts here:

DSP5000 innards

Next job: replacing the grill cloth...

Cinema: DSP5000 (18 bit), DSP5000C, DSP33, 568.1, Quad L-Sub
Music: DSP5000 (24 bit), MS200 + Reviver, Roon