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Hi All,
For a limited time, while stocks last, Meridian are offering the Meridian 210 at an amazing list price of £700 including VAT!

Please PM or email to reserve one!
Rick

Is that a genuine promotion, or more likely, a precursory indicator that the 210 is effectively an end-of-life product?

Speculation is allowed here I hope.

Will there be a new streamer with integrated Tidal and Qobuz?

A 818v4 with a ID42 RAAT card for the pure audio enthusiasts and a separate ID43 that does all other streaming duties?

Control through an app like the 218? New room correction?

I think it would be nice Meridian would keep the 800 platform alive and just adds modern streaming to it. Hope is a feeling of desire and confident expectation that something good will happen.

Maybe it’s being subsidised by Roon as a cheaper solution than fixing whatever they’ve done to break Sooloos (218, ID4x) support recently - upgrade everyone to RAAT 😂

I can’t see them keeping the 800 design, at least physically. Aside from the fact it’s dated, the card-based architecture only makes sense with multichannel, and we know that, sadly, Meridian won’t be doing that any more. I would guess a completely redesigned endpoint both aesthetically and technically. I do wonder, now that they won’t be releasing another surround processor, whether they will consider using some of their proprietary tech, such as Trifield, MRC and possibly sub management, in their flagship stereo endpoint. I really do hope, if it’s something along these lines, that they get a decent designer in, someone worthy of Allen Boothroyd’s legacy. The last few products look like they were designed by a student doing work experience.