Thanks to Nick and M. It was a much more HH-focused event than last time in that, to me, it felt much more relaxed, informal, and no sales pitch in sight.
No new product announcements. Mr Perceptive has posted the official Meridian roadmap above. This was actually one of Bob's slides!
Now -> More Stuff -> More Cool Stuff -> HH3
The 810 was very good and it is HUGE! Now that Faroudja is (obviously) history, I will concede that M can now do video and do it well. I am so glad it is so expensive and so big, because that makes it a complete non-option for 99.9% of us. Did I say it was big?
The 8000s fed by the 808.2 were stunning. Incredibly, in spite of the fact they were in the large, hard surfaced, glass-covered, spacious, Meridian reception area, they were still capable of reproducing the acoustic of the venue. Richard Hollingshead (Director of Engineering) said they only tried them out the night before HH2 and were quite surprised at how good they sounded in that, intuitively awful, "listening room".
I took some notes and will write them up. Most of the questions we submitted to M will be answered in the CEDIA/CES-style at a later date. Bob said it would take ages!
Lots of opportunity to chat with other Hikers both at HQ and at the pub afterwards.
The day went far too quickly. I had enough questions for at least two more similar events!
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