Hi Longitude

As a Meridian customer for more than 20 years now, I can tell you that I'm acutely aware of their financial dispositions down thru the years... and I can say that there have been many more "troughs" than peaks in their financial position

Sure the windfall they had from MLP about 12 years ago was a once-off boon... but I'm not sure their relative pre-eminence in the marketplace has changed significantly... vis-a-vis Linn, Arcam, Naim, Krell, Kef et al

Obviously the marketplace has changed, with less and less people interested in Multi-Channel Home Movie Theatres... or even in premium 2-channel replay

IMHO, the biggest "mistake" that Meridian have made over the past 10 years was in going from a relatively OPEN relationship with their Clients... to the one in play for the past 5-plus years of "say very, very little"

IMHO, that approach would not have worked in 1997... but it certainly won't work in 2017, where customers expect their suppliers to supply them with some kind of guidance of where they are going next... and I'm sorry, I just don't buy their argument of "keeping the information away from the competition"

e.g. there is an audience here waiting with baited breath to see what they can buy to play the latest MQA titles... but not alone are the Meridian products not really there to do that... but nobody here has ANY idea of WHAT or WHEN those products might come... leading them to look at other options

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