Meridian

October 2008 — Digital audio performance and style innovator Meridian Audio has announced that its elegant and highly contemporary new website is now live at: www.meridian-audio.com

With its clean, modern design and effortless performance the new website unveiled by Meridian - one of the consumer electronics industry’s most highly regarded luxury manufacturers - mirrors the peerless quality of the new product line-up the Cambridge-based company offers.

As well as delivering a complete and authoritative guide to every Meridian product available, the stylish site also offers an intelligent navigation system that lets you find what you want, as quickly and painlessly as possible. Read more

September 4, 2008 — Meridian Audio Limited recognized as a world leader in digital audio and video technologies for music and home-theater systems is pleased to showcase the award-winning DSP7200 Digital Active Loudspeakers including the new horizontal center channel during CEDIA Expo.

Like all Meridian’s DSP Loudspeakers, the DSP7200 combines state-of-the-art driver and enclosure engineering with multiple, on-board amplifiers for the dynamics and freedom from distortion that only active speaker design can deliver. Read more

September 4, 2008—For over ten years, leading UK-based luxury home entertainment manufacturer Meridian Audio Ltd has been developing and manufacturing award winning video products – from DVD players to projectors – that, together with the company’s advanced digital audio components, create the Meridian Digital Theatre, offering the highest quality reproduction of both image and sound.

Now, Meridian takes the next step towards perfecting the home viewing experience with the introduction of the Meridian 810 Reference Video System. The 810 system comprises two primary elements: the 810 Reference Video Projector, an entirely new D-ILA-based digital projector offering a previously impossible 10 megapixels – exceeding the resolution even of commercial digital cinema projectors – and the 810 Reference Video Scaler, a special processor designed to optimize the imaging of HD and standard resolution inputs for the vast new possibilities offered by a 10 megapixel projection environment. The result is a system that, Meridian believes, represents the most realistic home theater performance in the world. Read more

September 4, 2008 -- Meridian Audio Limited, the British company that created the world’s first audiophile CD player some 25 years ago has introduced the new 808.2 Signature Reference. The company’s latest benchmark CD design features important advancements to both its digital and analog sections.

“The 808 Signature Reference was the best compact disc player we had ever produced - until this new 808.2,” says company Co-founder and lead designer Bob Stuart. “The 808.2 is an evolutionary design, yet its refinements add up to what is in fact an almost entirely new piece of engineering. We’re confident that it will unequivocally retain Meridian’s position as the source of the world’s finest audio CD player, bar none.” Stuart continues, “This is very important to us, because the compact disc remains the primary music source for countless serious music and audio devotees, and at its best remains capable of remarkable sonic performance.” Read more

September 2, 2008 - CEDIA 2008 - Meridian Audio Limited recognized as a world leader in digital audio and video technologies for music and home-theater systems is pleased to showcase the award-winning DSP7200 Digital Active Loudspeakers including the new horizontal center channel during the upcoming 2008 CEDIA Expo. Like all Meridian's DSP Loudspeakers, the DSP7200 combines state-of-the-art driver and enclosure engineering with multiple, on-board amplifiers for the dynamics and freedom from distortion that only active-speaker design can deliver.

The DSP7200HC is designed for use as a center-channel loudspeaker, where the horizontal design avoids obscuring a display or screen, or in studio/mastering monitor applications where stand-mounting allows the loudspeaker to be positioned at ear level without any of the drivers being masked by studio equipment or a mixing console. It uses essentially the same components as the vertical model for truly compatible sound and performance, and has the same effective cabinet volume. Read more

Meridian's 810 Reference Video System - the most realistic digital video projection system in the world

For over ten years, leading UK-based luxury home entertainment manufacturer Meridian Audio Ltd has been developing and manufacturing award-winning video products - from DVD players to projectors - that, together with the company's advanced digital audio components, create the Meridian Digital Theatre, offering the highest quality reproduction of both image and sound.

Now, Meridian takes the next step towards perfecting the home viewing experience with the introduction of the Meridian 810 Reference Video System. The 810 system comprises two primary elements: the 810 Reference Video Projector, an entirely new D-ILA-based digital projector offering a previously impossible 10 megapixels - exceeding the resolution even of commercial digital cinema projectors - and the 810 Reference Video Scaler, a special processor designed to optimize the imaging of HD and standard resolution inputs for the vast new possibilities offered by a 10 megapixel projection environment. The result is a system that, Meridian believes, represents the most realistic home theater performance in the world. Read more

July 28, 2008 -- With the F80 music system Meridian, one of the consumer electronics industry's most highly regarded luxury manufacturers, engineered what is widely acknowledged the very ultimate in compact entertainment systems. So any new design released to work with the F80 must naturally be equally impressive.

With this in mind, Meridian has unveiled the new i80 with Universal Dock for iPod. Engineered and built at the company's UK headquarters, the new design elevates your humble iPod or iPhone to new musical heights, offering breathtaking audio quality.

While the iPod is central to so many people's lives and has many outstanding attributes, as Meridian technical director Bob Stuart says, "It is not really capable of offering the same sense of 'experience' that a high quality audio system can. With the i80 dock we are marrying together the convenience that the iPod offers with our expertise in sound quality and engineering." Read more

June 10, 2008 -- Meridian Audio Ltd., the British company whose uniquely stylish, technologically sophisticated audio and video designs are legendary among knowledgeable AV fans and system-designers, is taking an increasingly active role in courting the design-savvy, upscale consumer. For one example, Meridian will participate in the upcoming Digital Downtown show in New York City, an exclusive free event open to the public from June 12-14 at the World Financial Center in lower Manhattan. At Digital Downtown (Booth #166), Meridian will highlight the stunning new F80 all-in-one entertainment system engineered in cooperation with legendary automaker Ferrari. Meridian will also be informing show visitors about its more "traditional" music and audio-video system solutions.

According to Meridian America president Walter Schofield, outreach of this type is increasingly necessary thanks to his company's unique status. "Meridian enjoys the enviable position of being perceived as both a "luxury' brand with exceptional industrial design, and as a serious cutting-edge innovator," said Schofield. "While in many cases these two appear mutually exclusive, they are inextricably joined at Meridian, and indeed their harmony defines our company's very beginnings. Over the years we've done a great job reaching the 'technology-first/enthusiast' consumer; now we're broadening our efforts to claim mind-share of the high-net worth individual focusing on the design and style side-but with an unvarying commitment to the benchmark performance standards that have been Meridian's from the very first." Read more

May 2008—Since its debut, Meridian’s F80 has received numerous accolades from the world’s leading journalists for its extraordinary ability to provide consumers with an all-in-one system showcasing Meridian’s expertise in musical, voice and image reproduction. In an effort to extend the consumer reach, and in response to customer demand, Meridian America is pleased to offer the F80 for purchase on the web site www.theF80.com, available at full retail, $2,995.

The transportable Meridian F80 is an all-in-one digital sound system incorporating CD and DVD player and AM/FM radio, along with facilities for connecting any type of MP3 player or iPod to deliver beautiful, room-filling sound. The high-performance device, set to become a design classic, distills more than three decades of award-winning Meridian know-how and passion for music into a single, elegant package. Designed in collaboration with Ferrari, the mineral-filled composite that makes up the body of the F80 is identical to a material used by Ferrari on their legendary vehicles. Providing astonishing rigidity and high dimensional stability to maximize performance of its built-in loudspeakers, the F80 delivers an incredibly pure experience. It’s a premium quality solution for limited spaces and potential temporary uses such as bedrooms, kitchens, vacation homes or boats. Read more