Meridian reviews

Meridian A500 Floor standing speakers review
Floor standing speakers Meridian A500

The Meridian A500 is a British three-way system with a closed-type acoustic enclosure (a rarity these days). Drivers: one inch soft dome tweeter and two 170 mm drivers with conical cones. The system allows independent switching of the woofer; the contact terminals are gold plated. Judging by the input...
Meridian Director DAC review
DAC Meridian Director

Meridian, lest we forget, was one of the very earliest entrants to the DAC market, way back in the mid nineteen eighties. It has taken digital very seriously, and subsequently built much of its business around it. So when this Huntingdon-based company does a new digital convertor, the world sits up and...
Meridian DSP3100 Bookshelf speakers review
Bookshelf speakers Meridian DSP3100

Meridian DSP3100 are shelf speaker systems made of MDF with rich lacquer finish. Under strict protective film there are a 25-mm tweeter and 120-mm MF/LF driver with the diffuser made of carbon fiber. Each band has one DAC (24 bits/192 kHz) and amplifier with the power of 75 W. Digital crossover is set...
Meridian G08.2 CD-player review
CD-player Meridian G08.2

The MCD was Meridian's first ever Compact Disc player, audaciously launched as the world's first such specialist hi-fi machine back in 1984. I'm not sure if Philips and/or Marantz would agree, given that it was a lightly tuned CD100/CD63 (which was certainly no bad thing), but it nevertheless set the...
Meridian G96 DVD Transport review
DVD Transport Meridian G96

G96 - this DVD-transport, which has almost complete set of video interfaces, including HDMI, but no analog outputs sound. A digital - digital: it is not common to all six channels jack and coaxial outputs separate front, rear and center channels with bass. Accordingly, it needs a receiver capable of...