To be honest it doesn't really matter to me what is understood/suspected to be held up or waiting approval. Whatever it is it doesn't seem to be affecting anyone else at least not to introduce years of delay. It has already been well over a year and probably closer to two so regardless of how frustrating it is for Meridian how much time are we supposed to give them? I doubt that even half that time is due to external sources so if there was any real love they would spend the time and resources. Lets be honest it is a limited market and they probably have spent a lot already so why wouldn't they just want to cut their loses? Releasing it has probably just become a chore to look after the brand rather than make any money or because they passionately care for the product anymore.

Given that I am shortly going to be acquiring a Trinnov the 818/808 seem horrifically expensive just to get MQA. I can't possibly imagine that aside from MQA they would offer me anything. They don't even have MRC. As for the 200 series well that was for me the 210 but where is it? What the 210 offered was RAAT which nothing else in the Meridian line up currently does. Lack of confidence in Meridian Sooloos products combined with my apathy for MQA is sufficiently low for me not to really care anymore. As such I will continue to buy Meridian speakers and forget about MQA on anything else but other manufacturers products.

Anthony.

Sources: MS600, Fidelity Audio Reference Oppo UHD-203, Roon/QNAP, AppleTV 4K
Processors: Arcam AV40, 271 x2, Lumagen 5348 with Keces P8
Speakers: DSP7200SE FL/FR, DSP5200SE VC, DSP3200 x11, DSP320.2 VOG, DSW x4
Display: JVC DLA-N7 with PK-EM2, Panamorph Phoenix Pro, 128" 2.37 Curved Silver Ticket AT Screen