70s/Early 80s

Rega Planar II; Aiwa Cassette Deck + Rotel amp; bookshelf speakers (brand escapes me...)

Late 80s/Early 90s

LP12/Ittok/Troika; Linn Lk1 (later Kairn); Lk2 x3 (later LK280+Spark); Active Isobariks; Nakamichi cassette

Late 90s/Early 2000s

500/562v/565 (later 568)/ DSP 6000 + 5000c + 5000

Current

861v4/G91/ DSP 7000 + 5500HC + 5000


Why? I fell in love with the sound a fully active system was capable of producing and the Linn was pretty state of the art at the time - oh and it sounded great too but the cable sprawl was frightening (6 runs of thick speaker cable for a start!) and it was 2 channel only - also Linn changed direction and began to kind of disown their former owners with their newer kit.
I liked the purity of the Meridian solution and the fact that it looked good and required a lot less cable was a clincher in the end! Still have the LP12 though - it still sounds pretty good in its own unique way!

Graham

Meridian Owner since 1991