Guys,

Let's not get too caught up with what goes wrong with Meridian (both the gear and the company) and celebrate the good things we get from using their stuff.

They have a tough job to prioritise what they do at any particular time with respect to developing new products and maintaining old equipement. This forum seems to be down on the upgradeability of G series. I don't think we know yet how good or bad that will be. If they could do it for 5 series kit they can do it for the G series as well. There will be a question of cost - but they never promised the upgrades would be cheap - and we all know from experience of 5xx and 8xx upgrades they won't be.

I think Meridian may be acknowledging problems with priorities by appointing a Product Manager - my experience (in a small software company with about as many employees as Meridian - but operating worldwide) is these guys get heavily involved with both Sales and Marketing and Development - to ensure whatever is done is consistent with the business goals - growing revenue, profit or whatever.

Their biggest problem is dealing with User Wishlists - 90% of the time they already know what they will say. The requests are all reasonable and most are easy to do - but the resources are employed elsewhere for sound business reasons.

The most important question for me would be some understanding of the direction Meridian thinks the industry (and their business is headed). Does high quality audo/video have a real future - how many audiophiles are out there and do they have enough cash to fund companies like M to keep producing state of the art equipment?

I suspect that "convergence" and integrated whole house solutions, etc. is the way the market is moving. I see this being driven in two directions simultaneously - bottom up with cheap computers and wireless MP3 solutions and top down with high quality specialist designed individual solutions.

How does Meridian see this? How do they want to play this game? Can they play this game successfully?

regards

Chris

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