I'd been listening over years to Cyrus, Roksan, John Shearne, Arcam, Lynn and Music Fidelity. For me it was the sound quality over the companies I've listed but an equally big part was the long term, evolutionary, approach and the individual reputations of Bob Stuart and Alan Boothroyd. I just got to believe in Meridian and still do. I nearly lost my balance when G series came out - I thought they could have done more to help or inform people adopting 500 series at the time of the release - but 2.5 software release for 568.2 put me back on track.

Steve