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This is a sofa's-eye-view of my listening room/home theatre

Here is how my new room turned out. Need to decide on seating.

From there:


To here:

818v3 finally arrived, updated firmware (was a long time on a boat) and updated firmware on 8kSE's as well....

What can I say? As usual not too great at explaining but let me just say I'm very very happy with the changes

Wonderful, subtle, and just a "really nice" set of changes. Defo a wonderful upgrade to an already great system.

Simple, clean, perfect two channel set up.

Happy in Africa!

This is my current setup. Still lots of fine tuning to do but that's part of the fun I guess !

My thanks to Steve & Steven for making this fully digital fully Meridian system happen.

I helped a friend to set up this system

Hi All, as promised. I meant what I said recently, I feel the passion when I read the posts on here and you are all a great bunch. Let me show you what we have been up to.

These are some projects that I have personally had the pleasure of overseeing.

First one here was a stand-out, this system is 11.8.7, full Meridian solution. Front soundstage as you can see here is DSP8000XE in custom finish graphite. My boss toured the customer through HQ and he fell in love with these. 3 channels down each side using DSP520, surround backs are DSP750.

2 X DSW600 IW at the front, 2 at the rear, 1 on each side and one suspended overhead. 7 x Atmos are DSP520 also suspended overhead. 1 x 32 inch ascendo infrasonic in the rear.

Apple TV 4K, Kaleidescape, Amazon fire stick, Zidoo UHD-8000 [plus distributed sources over IP video from savant- 2 x fox/sky, another kaleidescape and apple tv]. All fed into lumagen radiance video processor, and processing done with Storm Audio ISP ELITE MKIII.

Most of this is concealed behind custom Italian made fabric wall panelling, which also hides all room treatments. Projection from a Christie M4k25RGB, 25000 lumen output [this thing is wild!], mounted and vibration isolated in a state-of-the-art hushbox designed by yours truly. Smart temperature gauges with twin 8-inch fans dedicated to exhaust and supply air to keep the projector running cool at all times.

This entire room is cabled with Audioquest FMJ600, shielded Cat6A, with custom shielded power cable from LÄPP in Germany.



Next up is our latest one, this one was particularly tricky. DSP8000SE front stage, with 7200HC. Client has a beautiful McLaren 720 spider and wanted all the speakers to match the paintwork, hence the custom blue finish. You will notice the atmos and surrounds here as a stand-out. I took the little rubber feet off and we mounted them using the threads both upside down [for the rears] and on angle and on axis for the 4 atmos channels.

Sides are DSP520, mounted in the custom timber slatwork which runs side to side. We used some amazing pixel mapping products from a local Australian company to produce all of the LED effects you see. The pixel tape and diffusers are incorporated into the slats, continuous side to side, as well as behind the rear diffuser panels, and even in the ceiling speaker boxes. There's a special strip which lights the curtain at the front of the room.

This system has much the same sources (minus the Video over IP), also using lumagen and storm audio. This one however is the latest ISP evo, which allows us to take 16 channels of AES straight into the 271, keeping the signal pure digital until it reaches the speakers.

4 x DSW.2 [2 front and 2 rear] also in a matching colourway. This hushbox is slightly smaller and incorporated into the Joinery, making serving easier. Screen and room size is smaller here, meaning we used a SONY VPL-XW7000, with a panamorph anamorphic lense to help with the 120 inch 2.35:1 screen.



Admins, if this isn't allowed feel free to remove.

Hitchhikers, please enjoy!

Here is my setup without pictures but schematically, hoping to view images soon


Meridian 861v4


Meridian HD621


Electricity

YouTube video of my theater room by the Home Theater Hobbyist.

Greetings from a new member. I have pleasure in attaching pictures of my somewhat modest, but terrific sounding system. The more eagle eyed amongst you may notice that the G98D is not showing in the full system and that it because it is being serviced at the moment.

I have always loved the 7k's.

I used to have a silver pair, wish I never sold them.

my new setup:

Stand for center was added

bit of DIY on 3200 speaker stands..now used as desktop speakers
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rather big photo sorry

Originally from my first purchase when I had one room only I had an 861v8 into them. It was one Cinema set up then and just listened to the 8k's in 2 channel.
Then in new house ended up with 2 channel room and cinema, so 861 went in the cinema.

The last few weeks I've been running the 8k's with an MS200 so quite a step up from the last connection!

Will get Cinema room photo's done now 861 and DSW are in there.

I will be using a three connected chair configuration with lower backed seats so as not to block tweeters. As for the speaker choices I went with speakers that I represent. Kind of a necessary evil. I suppose that if I tried I might hear a timbral mismatch but in the end everyone leaves the room trying to figure out how they can beg borrow or steal a way to have something similar in their home.

In this thread we need: Photos, Photos and more Photos.

Hope I don't get into too much water for the lack of Meridian equipment!

When we built our house in 2016, I sold my G68 and HD621 and went with a McIntosh processor to keep the look. After 6 years with the MX122, I just got rid of it and moved to an Anthem AVM 90. While I enjoyed the clean look of the Mac with all my other Mac equipment and the ease of an HDMI connection, I really feel like the G68 was a better processor, especially in 2 channel.

The Anthem and it's ability to handle 4 independent subs and it's room correction software is light years ahead of both, I am looking at adding a Meridian CD transport and the 210 for streaming however.

See my other posts…

Meridian CD Transports/Players still good?

210 vs other similar priced streamers

That's a great system! Enjoy!

My big rig has actually sported a quartet of Seaton Submersive HP subs for a decade. I adore these beasts and they are as adept at music duties as they are at HT infrasonic extravaganzas. Its been years since I shared updated pics of our dual-duty music & cinema room and there has been gigantic changes in the interim, so here goes...














While there is little in the way of Meridian gear in my big rig anymore (just a pair of 557 power amps to drive my overhead Atmos channels), I do still have a bunch of legacy M kit lurking elsewhere. I have nearly a museum's worth of old Kef B110 based analog Meridian active loudspeaker models along with a bunch of 2xx and 5xx electronics scattered around both our living & working spaces. This is our current living room set-up with Meridian's late '80s flagship M100s still going strong.

Lovely setup. I love my 7ks. Would only ever sell if an affordable pair of 8ks came up. They sound fantastic !

I bet!

They used a silver pair on some of the marketing shots back in the day. Lovely!

Very nice indeed.

Nice and clean setup.

I’m impressed that a glass shelf can take the weight of a DSP5200HC.

Very nice upgrades.

What size is that TV?

Also, is it a Panasonic plasma?

Thank you 3dit0r

The TV is a Panasonic TX-P55ST50B or 55" Plasma, which I purchased in 2015 after surrendering a 42" Pioneer Plasma due to lack of 1080P.

I think it was pretty much one of the last Plasma's available.