It seems so long ago when the UK Southern Meridian Forum members got together in a pub/hotel in Surrey and chatted about stuff. What a keen bunch we were and claimed we would do it again some day.

Since then, jobs, family, health, HD-DVD and Bluray happened and so I returned to the hitcher's site to see what's new ?

Hmmm nothing, a lot of our firends over thes sea playing with technology, in the Uk Meridian to me has all but disappeared. My local dealers in Surrey no longer stock it, they even actively promote how bad the 2 channel products have become in the G-Series.

And I do travel to the US occasionally and have seen a few stores stocking even an 8000 pair which to my knowledge is only phase 3 and musical images in London who do now.

Is this the wrinting on the wall for the Uk, Scalers, projectors, mergers all coming at a time when many others are going in a new fast direction.

I know M invented a lot of stuff, but it appears to me that ARCAM , NAIM, etc are forging ahead with options and still Meridian insist of increasing prices for stagnant (not dying) technology.

Bang & Olufsen seemed to re-invent and well its pretty and simple, people pay for that 5 new B&O dealers in my region in 2 years compared to no Meridian dealer any longer.

Comments from the UK hardcore. Why bother when the image I can get on a 50 inch 1080P Plasma from a 300 quid Helios X5000 is more than short of amazing, why bother with an 4k DVD/CD etc.

Help me join the faith again, forgive me father I have sinned