Also.....if your going to be spending that kind of cash and do not have Meridian dealers in NI, i would suggest getting a cheap flight over to London and checking it out. For less than �100 you could fly here, have a demo and then know that the purchase was a sound one. at the end of the day, sound is subjective, so something that i may like, you may hate and vice versa.
saying that though, i would like to meet someone that does not like Meridian kit, to me it is the reference.

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