Meridian America DSP7200 User Manual

The Ideal Combination for

Astonishing Sound Quality

“CDs played through the 808.2 and the new DSP7200
active DSP loudspeaker sounded like high-resolution
recordings.” — Robert Harley, AVGuide

The heart and soul of your music library
has been hidden away forever. Now the
time has come to set it free – to release
the extraordinary excitement and emotion
that lies within. Listen with DSP7200
Digital Active loudspeakers – and
experience the heart of your music for the
first time.

Meridian invented the Digital Active
loudspeaker over 15 years ago. It takes
the elements of a conventional hi-fi
system and refines them, develops them
to a peak – and hides them away inside
the loudspeaker cabinet itself. This is the
Meridian secret – a secret that you
can share.

Technology with a feeling for music

The Meridian DSP7200 is part of a
musical family – a very different and
unusual family. A traditional ‘hi-fi system’
wastes a great deal of energy: big
amplifiers drive power down thick,
unsightly cables, only to burn it away

as heat in a conventional passive
loudspeaker’s crossover. Not so with
a Meridian system. Here, the power
amplifiers and loudspeaker drivers are in
the self-same cabinet, along with all the
components that are usually separate
boxes in a conventional system. Invisible
to the eye, the digital input signal is
enhanced by powerful Digital Signal
Processing (DSP) computers that work
out exactly what each speaker unit needs
to operate with the highest quality and
with optimum efficiency.

The signal then passes to a special high­resolution Digital to Analogue Converter
(DAC) unique to each driver, for maximum
quality. The resulting audio goes to the
loudspeaker unit’s own power amplifier,
mounted inches away from the driver
itself. That closeness means not only
efficiency, but much better control: we
can ensure that the loudspeaker most
accurately represents the subtle
nuances of the sound.