Meridian Unplugged - Powered by MrTechGuy.co.uk Forums Discussion Meridian - Systems Stereophile Review of Meridian 808.2 / 808i.2

I'm not selling the 861, at least not now. I've been a Meridian owner since '94, having owned, through the years, the 500, 562, 565, 568, 598, G68, G98, DSP5000, DSP5000C, A500, DSP7000, DSP5500C, and now finally the 861. No product has given me the pride of ownership that I got from the 861. I expect it to be useful to me again in the future, and I expect Meridian will apply their latest knowledge of digital audio from the 808.2 to improve the 861 once again.

To bring the thread back to the original point I was trying to make, the point is not to denigrate the 861 in any way, merely to point out how rapidly digital audio seems to be progressing over the last couple of years. The 861 was considered pretty much state of the art, for any number of channels, just 6 or 7 years ago. JA's review of the 808.2i suggests that Meridian is not resting on their laurels, and is continuing to push the state of the art.