Meridian G08 User Manual

The G08 24-bit Upsampling CD Player takes

Compact Disc playback to an entirely new level.

With a heritage that includes the multiple award

winning 588 and 800 – and two dozen optical

disc players from 1984 to the present day – the

G08 is CD-optimised, and able to play virtually

any CD, from conventional pressings to CD-R,

CD-R/W and discs of MP3  les (64–256kbps).

It also plays the CD side of DualDisc DVD/CD

hybrids, and the CD layer of an SACD disc.

At the heart of the G08 are fully-integrated

electronics and a computer-style CD/DVD-ROM

drive. Although it normally runs at standard

CD speed, the drive is capable of spinning the

disc much faster, allowing multiple high-speed

re-reads to ensure accurate recovery of data

from even the most dif cult disc. This feature

alone provides ten times the error correction of

a conventional CD player.

Once the digital data stream has been recovered

from the disc, powerful on-board digital signal

processing (DSP) with a capability of an impres-

sive 150 MIPS (million instrcutions per second)

up-samples the digital information from the

44.1 kHz, 16-bit signal of conventional CD to 24

bits, and to a sample rate of 176.4 kHz for digi-

tal to analogue conversion to drive the analogue

outputs, and 88.2 kHz for the digital outputs.

Upsampling enables  ltering to take place far

beyond the range of human hearing, as well as

offering other, audible bene ts, right across the

audio band, for ultimate transparency from a

CD source.

winning 588 & 800 players

line of high performance

black or a sleek silver  nish.

predecessors, the multi-award-winning 500 and

bandwidth video components are employed for

ate, a knob is included to control volume. The

positive-action front-panel keys are software-

setup program on a Windows computer,

plus Meridian communications ports. A compre-

The G08 employs a triple buffering system to

This, and the digital electronics as a whole, are

that the highest level of detail is recovered from

to do so.

The G08 player includes both balanced (on XLR

tors) 2-channel analogue outputs.

The G08 Upsampling CD player is an ideal

tems. A typical analogue system is shown above,

THD

Triple-beam laser, multi-speed

Analogue: 1 unbalanced on phono, 1 balanced on

XLR-3M: 2.3V rms  xed, Class A, 47

impedance

Two 5-pin 240° DIN sockets, BNC socket Meridian

face

Width: 440mm (17.32in); Depth: 350mm (13.78in)

Weight

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