Meridian DSP
Meridian DSP White High Gloss Onboard Digital Signal Processing for dynamic bass protection with exceptionally accurate transients. DSP always delivers clear, accurate, quality sound even at high levels and for prolonged periods. Meridian SpeakerLink connectivity makes DSP quick and easy to set up and install. Featuring a wide-range driver that allows the DSP crossover frequency to be well outside the speech band, the DSP delivers an effortless sound that remains clear, open and spacious, even at high listening levels. DSP Loudspeakers The traditional setup – amplifiers driving passive loudspeakers – is inefficient, limiting sound quality. Meridian loudspeakers contain a complete, matched audio system with efficient DSP crossovers, multiple DACs and driver-specific amplifiers, giving higher overall quality, less power use, and the performance of a traditional loudspeaker eight times the physical volume. SpeakerLink 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. Triple FIFO Buffering 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. Meridian High Resolution (MHR) MHR was the first approved encryption method for transferring high definition digital audio between components. Previously, it had to be in the analogue domain, reducing quality. MHR allows secure movement of high resolution digital audio within a Meridian system, without compromise, improving quality by reducing cyclic repetition. Meridian Apodising Filter 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. Wide Range Driver Loudspeakers use crossovers to “divide” music into bands their drivers can reproduce. This introduces distortion, reducing sound quality – particularly on human voice recordings. Designing a single driver for both mid and high frequencies made a crossover within the vocal range unnecessary, avoiding distortion and reproducing more lifelike vocals at all volume levels. Performance Frequency response in-room within 3dB from 45Hz to over 20kHz. Output >105dB spl @ 1m on music material. Noise less than 15dB spl. Connections Meridian SpeakerLink in and out (RJ45) Construction 2-way sealed enclosure system. Drivers 1 x 165mm polypropylene bass driver. 1 x 85mm aluminium cone wide-range driver. Amplifiers Two 75W power amplifiers, one for each driver. Overall distortion typically
