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With its extensive Research and Development programme Meridian has pioneered the development of a host of innovative audio technologies many of which feature in today’s Meridian products.

Each sample of a digital recording must remain evenly spaced in time. Unfortunately, timing can vary, especially when reading discs. This is “jitter”, degrading music's sense of space and diminishing realism. Meridian's multiple “First In, First Out” buffering system minimises jitter, ensuring perfect timing and improved clarity. You enjoy a clearer feeling of the instruments and their interrelationship.

Filters are critical in digital audio. Commonly they introduce distortion and harshness because of 'pre-ringing'. Early digital recordings suffer from harshness too, due to primitive filters. After painstaking research, Meridian developed a special filter that avoids pre-ringing, so it can be steeper, cleaning up the effects of early filters. The result: a better, cleaner sound from recordings old and new.

Traditional audio systems often require large, expensive cables to maintain their performance. Meridian's SpeakerLink uses an “Ethernet style” cable that delivers pristine digital sound and control down a single cable between Meridian components. The result is simple, unobtrusive, and cost-effective cables that are easy to install

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Meridian Audio
TypeLimited company
IndustryAudio/VisualConsumer electronics equipment manufacturing and distribution
Founded1977; 44 years ago
FounderBob Stuart, Allen Boothroyd
HeadquartersHuntingdon, England
ProductsHigh-end loudspeakers, home theatre equipment
Websitewww.meridian-audio.com

Meridian Audio is a British manufacturer of high-performance, high-fidelity audio and video components and systems founded in 1977 by Bob Stuart and Allen Boothroyd.[1]

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History[edit]

Meridian Audio founders Allen Boothroyd and Bob Stuart

Based in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, Meridian Audio was founded by John Robert (Bob) Stuart and Allen Boothroyd in 1977. Since the company's inception, all Meridian products have been built in the UK.[1]The company was the among the first to introduce active loudspeakers designed for the domestic market [1] and was the first British company to manufacture a CD player in 1983. The Meridian MCD, launched in 1985, was the first audiophile CD player.[2][3] Meridian also created the first digital surround-sound processor, the 565 in 1994 as well as the first DSP-based digital active loudspeakers.

Today, the company's two largest markets are the United States[4] and the UK.[citation needed]

Until 2007, the company operated without a marketing department. Hobbyists favoured the company's products, engineers ran the company, and instead of marketing their products the company focused on making technical improvements to them. During the pre-2007 economic boom, exports made up 80 per cent of Meridian's sales.[1]

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Meridian Audio's flagship DSP8000 speakers

Meridian MCD, J[edit]

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In 1984, the two founders, operating under the name Boothroyd-Stuart created a CD player under the brand name Meridian. They named the device the MCD, J.[5]Having acknowledged that they lacked the experience or manufacturing facilities to create a CD player from scratch,[6] Boothroyd-Stuart turned to Phillips, who allowed small companies to purchase their CD-101 decks and design their own cases and interfaces.[5] The two co-founders suspected that the mechanical parts and electronics of mass-produced CD players negated the overall sound quality.[5] Specifically, they felt that a lot of the sonic faults were not down to the system itself but to imperfections in the digital data extraction, the D/A conversion and the audio output circuitry.[6] Moreover, they believed physically stabilizing the disc in the player eliminated the digital signal decoding errors caused by vibrations. Therefore, they discarded the deck’s analog audio circuitry and improved the unit’s power supply.[5] Most-importantly they sped up the deck’s laser-tracking servo’s focus reaction time so that it could track warped discs better. They also installed a new audio board with better grounding and shielding capabilities, aluminum electrolytic output coupling capacitors and a 3-pole analog filter section.[6]

In 2007, a consortium of investors purchased a minority holding in the company.[1][7]Following the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent recession the firm underwent three years of restructuring and experienced a 50% reduction in sales to the U.S.A but a 10% increase in overall sales. The company also reduced its product line from 120 products to 35.[1]The company opened its first shop in Bangkok, Thailand in November 2009, followed by three more retail outlets in Seoul, Santiago and Mexico City and a U.K. branch in Oxford.[1][8]The manufacturer makes its products in Britain uses trades such as joinery, cabinetry and upholstery with some digital components sourced from Asia.[9]Bob Stuart created a movie projector system.[1]In 2014, Meridian launched Meridian Lossless Packing a lossless compression format.[1] The format is the standard used on DVDs and Blu-ray discs.[10]Stuart resigned from the company in September 2017, while Boothroyd resigned as director in March 2020.[11]

Awards and recognition[edit]

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Meridian products have received several awards, including:

  • 2011 Robb Report Best of the Best, Audio: Meridian Sooloos Digital Media System[12]
  • 2010 CEA Human Interface Product of the Year: Meridian Sooloos[13]
  • 2009 Robb Report Best of the Best, Home Video: Meridian 810 Reference Video System[14]
  • 2009 CEA Innovations Design and Engineering Award in the Integrated Home Systems: Meridian Sooloos[15]
  • 1988 British Design Council Award: Meridian 200 Series[16]
  • 1982 British Design Council Award: Meridian Modular Amplifier System[17]
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See also[edit]

  • Meridian Lossless Packing, compression for DVD-Audio.
  • Master Quality Authenticated, launched by Meridian Audio in 2014.

References[edit]

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  1. ^ abcdefghi'Bob Stuart: Britain's best-kept engineering secret'. The Independent. 16 December 2010. Archived from the original on 8 February 2021. Retrieved 8 February 2021.
  2. ^Valens, Quinn (15 June 2009). 'Time warp: Meridian's MCD, the first audiophile CD player'. Gaget Guy. Archived from the original on 30 October 2020. Retrieved 8 February 2021.
  3. ^Holt, Gordon (1 December 2010). 'Meridian MCD & MCD Pro CD players'. Stereophile. Archived from the original on 1 December 2020. Retrieved 8 February 2021.
  4. ^Taub, Eric (22 April 2004). 'TECHNOLOGY; Electronics That Enhance an Image (Yours)'. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 26 June 2018. Retrieved 8 February 2021.Taub, Eric (22 April 2004). 'TECHNOLOGY; Electronics That Enhance an Image (Yours)'. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 26 June 2018. Retrieved 8 February 2021.
  5. ^ abcdDOWNES, KIERAN (2010). Perfect Sound Forever':Innovation, Aesthetics, and the Re-Making of Compact Disc Playback. The Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 324.
  6. ^ abcHolt, Gordon J (2 May 1985). 'Equipment Reports: Meridian MCD CD Player'(PDF). Stereophile. pp. 56–58. Retrieved 10 February 2021.
  7. ^'Meridian Audio Limited and Muse Investment Group Enter Into Financial and Branding Alliance'. Yumpu. 5 December 2007. Archived from the original on 20 February 2021. Retrieved 10 February 2021.
  8. ^Cox, Joe (10 April 2011). 'Meridian brings first boutique outlet to UK'. What Hi-Fi?. Archived from the original on 1 October 2020. Retrieved 10 February 2021.
  9. ^Warman, Matt (21 April 2012). 'The great sound of Britain'. The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 27 June 2018. Retrieved 10 February 2021.
  10. ^'The Technical Registry Pronom'. National Archives. 22 September 2016. Archived from the original on 10 February 2021. Retrieved 10 February 2021.
  11. ^'MERIDIAN AUDIO LIMITED'. Retrieved 10 February 2021.
  12. ^'Best of the Best 2011: Audio: Meridian Sooloos Digital Media System'. Robb Report. 1 June 2011. Archived from the original on 1 February 2013.
  13. ^'CEA Announces Winners of 2010 Mark of Excellence Awards'. Business Wire. 29 April 2010. Archived from the original on 26 June 2018. Retrieved 9 February 2021.
  14. ^'Meridian 810 Reference Video System'. Robb Report. 1 June 2009. Archived from the original on 10 February 2010. Retrieved 18 July 2012.
  15. ^'Innovation 2009: Design and Engineering Awards'. CE.org. 6 February 2009. Archived from the original on 29 November 2014. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
  16. ^'Meridian'. Gramophone. May 1999. p. 193.
  17. ^'Audio components from Kenneth D Fairey's mid 1970s to mid 1980s high fidelity audio system'. Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences (Powerhouse Museum). 25 July 2014. Archived from the original on 10 February 2021. Retrieved 10 February 2021.

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