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It sounds like a great day; looking forward to hearing all about it in due course.

Is that ‘Roon’ as the source on the DSP5200SE’s

Great to meet up and put some names to faces! Didn't get to speak to everyone, but it was good just to chat.
Yes Russ, Roon was the source.

I think Russ was enquiring about the hardware underpinning the Roon endpoint

Thank you Nick for organising an excellent two days in Huntingdon and thank you Rick for hosting lunch yesterday - much appreciated, and also for setting up the factory visit on Wednesday, it was extremely interesting and well worth the extra day out.

It was great to meet all the attendees, what a lovely, friendly bunch you are and a big thank you too to John & Rayner for taking time out of their no doubt very busy Meridian schedule to join us and for listening to us and for what will hopefully be the start of an on-going, open and constructive dialogue going forward.

I know from experience just how much hard work, personal time and effort is involved in organising events like this, so a big thank you to everyone who played a part - great job.

Best wishes
Stephen

It was a great day yesterday and thanks should go out to Nick for running the day so well. Rick is a legend - thanks for the lunch and emotional support on Wednesday evening! It was good of Meridian to attend as well.

The speakers were running on Roon. I had a couple of questions about the kit. This is what I bought:

Intel i5 Slim Baby Canyon NUC7I5BNK Thunderbolt3 Barebone


Samsung PM961 256GB M.2 PCIe NVMe Performance SSD/Solid State Drive


Corsair Vengeance 8GB DDR4 SODIMM 2400MHz Laptop Memory 2x4GB

and Windows 10 Pro -

I also use it to run KODI to play Bluray rips.

The Network was created with a 4G Router and a 3 PAYG Sim card.:
Huawei E5172

Cheers
Tom

Thanks for the info. Sounds like a great day!

Many thanks to Nick for all his efforts in organising the event, which I know required a lot of work behind the scenes. And also to Rick for lunch.

It was interesting to hear John Buchanan describe what Meridian is trying to do. The fact that he and Rainer (the Marketing Director) were willing and able to join us is very positive.

It was also great fun talking to everyone, and shaking The Old Bridge with both professional Ampex tapes from the 1960s and cutting edge technology.

It sounds like you all had a great time. Thanks to everyone who made it possible, hopefully I will be able to make it to the next one!

Will there be any headline notes coming from the discussions which might be of interest to those who couldn't make it? In particular it would be great to know if M plan to continue the focus on high margin high-end and installer kit (to refill the coffers a bit), or if the mid-range will start to benefit from some trickle down (the AC200 and MS200 are getting very long in the tooth now).

What great couple of days - certainly exceeded my expectations

Thanks to Nick For perfect organisation and Rick for his hospitality and incredible knowledge - no wonder he has so many happy customers!

Not least thanks to Meridian for their involvement at their home and the hotel - it was a valuable and rewarding insight

Of course also so nice to meet some many HH friends with so much knowledge in one room - fantastic

Should we make it a regular event every 1-2 years

Many thanks to all and best regards
Huw

I would like to add my gratitude to everyone involved in making yesterday such an enjoyable event.

It was a very positive event and hopefully Meridian will be more relaxed and more confident about communicating with us going forward.

As for future gatherings I very much look forward to them!

Just curious but, the 218 was essentially the replacement for the MS200 and added features. With your 5200SE's the 218 would certainly outperform the MS200 with the addition of MQA.