Bump. I gave up on separates because I literally can’t afford to assemble a hi-end system from scratch. I don’t doubt any product can be made better than another if you could just keep throwing money at it. There’s a pair of DSP8000’s with the SE upgrade on AG for $25k.

Is it reasonable to ask in this thread how many ex 8k SE owners could confidently put together a better sounding system armed with the same wallet? Then how do we define better?

Often times better pitch definition and separation comes at the cost of a hot tweeter that reduces the size of my collection. The best speakers I owned (by review standards) were the Revel Salon2 and while they had a tweeter that is amazing I’ve heard affordable Maggie’s I found more musical.

Good to know us Meridian owners are just as insecure as regular audiophiles smile

DSP8000SEUP, 218, KEF Blade, Mcintosh Mc611x2, C49, Roon Nucleus. 'lovin the dream.