Nothing really new . Meridian realised in the early 90's that the way forward was digital active DSP controlled speakers ( other realised that active speakers was needed in the 60-70's ormpossiblynearlier for pa ) .
The Meridian speakers are not perfect I'm not saying that what I have is actually prof of concept designs IMO ( se my signature ) In a different world I had 80 other brands of DSP driven active HT systems to choose from that could accommodate for different taste and acoustics ,speakers are never gona be neutral , so you must pick your poison . And they would cost 1/20 of my Meridian system . So thank you conservative audiophiles for keeping us in the dark ages by paying the likes of audionote money and buying those cables and tube dampers etc :( It did not really helped that with the inception of DVDA and SACD in the early 00's it usually was an absolute no no from the media industries to allow hi res digital out !? Especially for all 6 channels ( another missed opurtunity ). Meridian and some few other where some kind of exception . So when I bought my prof of concept lab kit from M :) it was one of the few that could take 6*24/96 signals do all DSP volume and xover and eq in the digital domain and just leave the analog to drive the elements in the speaker . In my pow this was the way to do it but why was it not more common and why so expensive . It actually not rocket science and any big brand far eastern mfg could do it if any one wanted it ,sadly that was/is not the case . -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad1 with iPengHD & SqueezePad (in storage SB3, reciever ,controller ) server HP proliant micro server N36L with ClearOS Linux http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101784 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
