George,

I'm pretty sure that Meridian players never showed up in the benchmarks. I always found that odd.

To the entire subject and the Toshiba XA2, the fact of the matter is that fan of Meridian were doing themselves 'no favors' when they bought these overpriced, buggy units in the first place. I'm glad I never jumped in. Loving my XA1 and SB3, and I have about $6k left over to boot. And both products actually work as advertised.