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Put me down and I will see what I can do to organise work around a trip to the UK from Oz

First, good on M for making this happen. I must admit that I had my doubts.

Second, in these tough times, I imagine that it will be cheaper and logistically easier for M to hold the event on a Friday.

Finally, here is a list of plus and minus points that I wrote quite some time ago. Does anyone else feel the same?

My plus points from HH1:

• Factory tour.
• Exclusive demo of the F80.
• Openness and accessibility of the staff.

My minus points from HH1:

• The Q&A session didn't really work. It ended up getting quite technical and went over the heads of much of the audience; and although the discussion got technical, there wasn't really an opportunity to delve deeper into some of the real issues (such as MRC and bass management). For the non-technical, Meridian is limited on what it can answer in terms of future developments.
• There was too much marketing in the presentations given the audience. It didn't need to be a sales pitch. The F80 sold itself; I bought one on the strength of the demos at HH1 alone.
• The digital cinema / 8k demo was very disappointing and Meridian video was plainly behind the game at that point. Poor choice of demo material too.

Suggestions for HH2:

• Have a whole load of optional sessions as well as a couple of "mandatory" ones. For instance, if I go again, I won't be fussed about the factory tour.
• Include a technical training session(s) for those inclined. Particularly speaker calibration, MRC and bass management. Often you need such a session to come up with the interesting questions!
• A presentation of the challenges/headaches that HDMI posed (from technical (audio HDMI spec and changing HDMI spec), political, and market perspectives) and how Meridian arrived at the solution it did.
• Listening demos; lots of them. Run them all for the entire day (apart from during the entire group sessions), let people choose which they go too, and let them take their own discs. For instance, I have never heard 8ks set up optimally; 5k5 owners might be particularly interested in hearing the 7200s, etc., etc.
• I'd love a demo of real instruments (inc. Grand Piano) vs. recordings of the same instruments played back via the 8ks. "Show us how well Meridian can reproduce audio".
• Themed feedback sessions? e.g. Client/server music.
• A presentation on where Meridian sees itself in x years - i.e. They tell us what they can rather than us second-guess what we can ask them.

Now where is that transcription of the HH1 Q&A session?!!!

I know I sound like a stuck record on this but...

One training session or presentation should be on how properly to set up all the parameters in the DSP presets. This, to me, is one of the glaring omissions from Meridian.

However, I agree with VK's comments on calibration and MRC.

I am looking forward to HH2. Can't wait to get the date confirmed.

It will be interesting to see what they have to show us this time.

Work permitting I'd love to attend.
Nick - thanks in advance for your efforts.
Cheers,

Ed.

Hope I can make it - early July family holiday already booked. fingers crossed.

Chris

Looking forward to it.
Should be another great day.

As well as visiting Meridian it would also be good to put some faces to the forum names and meet fellow HHs. Will definitely want to go.

David

I would like to attend as well; any day should be fine for me.

I will just need to scrounge a lift from chrislayeruk…

I prefer the saturday, but since I had to miss the last meet, I will definitely come, even if it's on a friday.

I am looking forward to seeing the factory, and to have a chance to listen to the inwalls and 7200s.

It was F80 last time , probably Sooloos this time ????

It would be nice if they could return the Q+A s soon as it would facilitate better informed questioning from the floor .

~M~

Hi ncpl,

Please count me in, I have been looking forward to visiting M for a long time.
Friday or Saturday is cool, but plenty of notice on the chosen date would be extremly usefull as I, like many others, get booked up way inadvance.

Regards,
Carl.