Happy to se the gauntlet passed to some other than Meridian , which I own . Meridian have done this since the 90's but they are by now a luxury brand and quite expensive . I do like the sound of my meridian equipment but I'm convinced it can be done cheaper and better by now .
I think genelec also offer some consumer friendly 5.1 solutions . my hifi dealer told me that you can use a meridian HD621 to convert hdmi to discrete digital outputs ? Or they might be another solution for that . Now genelec speakers looks like Moomin and the subwoofers like air humidifiers :) but they can sound impressive History lesson by 2004 when I bought the DVDA player and Souround processor Meridian was about the only ones that feed discrete 5.1 24/96 digital signals from their DVDA player further down the chain trough their processor to the speakers in most other solutions both SACD and DVDA was converted to analog in the player , often due to paranoid licensing issues ( irrational fear of piracy ) ? But that's all obsolete by now we move on . We had an old tread on active digital speakers I do think we have even more to pick from . As speakers rarely can be totally neutral and transparent and they also interact with an to the designer unknown acoustic ( he can make educated guesses ) there will always be a matter of taste . So more brands on this scene will widen the audience . -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 (spares Touch, 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=103847 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
