Meridian Unplugged - Powered by MrTechGuy.co.uk Forums Discussion Meridian - Systems F80

Well I am now in posession of a white F80 albeit hidden under my desk.

Having cleared it with the wife in Silver, I was disappointed to hear of yet more delays with this colour. However, I was informed that all the other colours were in stock. Second choice was 'Off white' which after seeing the colour on the Meridian colour selector looked very bright - thankfully it is much more toned down. So I don't think I will be disappointed.

A number of things to note - before getting home and having a play:

Contrary to as concluded earlier in this thread, it has optical out built into the headphone jack - which incidentally can be configured to mute the speakers or not when headphones were plugged in. So hopefully I will have the option of plugging it into an external system. Not sure if headphone out can be set to fixed/variable out.

Also, the unit contains FreeRTOS V3.0.0 which looks an interesting read

I have also been tipped off that you don't have to call in the great painter to watch multi region DVD's Will check that when I get home.

I did get a chance to play with a unit at the shop. I had forgotten how sublime it sounded - same experience as on the factory visit when I had to pick my jaw up off the floor. It was sitting between two full size speakers, and even knowing that I had just hit play, I still had to perform a mental rain check and confirm that it was indeed the F80 playing rather than the floor standing speakers. Slightly worrying was the display of the demo unit - showing a yellow line across the top line of the display. Couldn't work out whether the display had slipped down in the bezel or whether it had a fault in the top row of 'pixels'. Hopefully not a QA issue.

Just got to wait for the iPod lead to be made available. Either that or a second SB. Probably wont be much difference in price!