Originally Posted by Jeremy A-H
I was under the impression from somewhere that, in the past, Meridian had tweaked the sound without necessarily mentioning it.
Sorry to take this a bit off topic, but to my ears, the firmware for the 8k most certainly changed over a couple of releases. Can't remember which (might have been the one before last, not the new crossover one) but the top end rolled off earlier, and I felt there was noticeably less bass extension. There was more of a lift in the mid bass. There did seem to be better coherence across the mid though, something just felt more "right" about that, particularly with vocals, so I stuck with it. I swapped the firmware back and forth, it was a repeatable observation.

Cheers
George