Meridian Unplugged - Powered by MrTechGuy.co.uk Forums Discussion Meridian - Systems Meridian Launch New DSP9 Loudspeaker

I was excited when I read the heading of this thread. Then I watched the video and read the webpage.

My impression is, sadly, that these are the opposite of many of the claims in the presentation:

- IMO, by far the ugliest DSPs Meridian have ever made. Honestly, to my eye, they don’t look sleek and the proportions aren’t minimised by the use of curves at all. They look tubby, dumpy, and oddly proportioned, a bit like a one-eyed space hopper or a tellytubby gone wrong.
- Cutting edge research on cabinet materials came up with the novel exciting material… MDF… Really? When Meridian have been using Meridium laminate for years, which actually was/is cutting edge and innovative. Yet they cost far more than a speaker made using a more complex laminate cabinet to produce.

They may well sound great, of course, but they’d damn well better do at that price.

I find the re-jargonisation of tech Meridian has been using for ages irritating.