Meridian Audio 808 Brochure

Meridian Audio Limited

Latham Road, Huntingdon PE29 6YE, United Kingdom • T [phone] F [phone] •

www.meridian-audio.com

Meridian America Inc

8055 Troon Circle Suite C, Austell, Atlanta GA 30168-7849, USA • T [phone] F [phone]

There is nothing quite like sinking into

your favourite chair in your listening room,

pressing ‘play’ on the remote control, and

listening, as the air becomes fi lled with a

faithful rendering of your favourite recording.

This is true whatever the format, but the fact

is that there is still one medium that is today

as popular as ever: the Compact Disc.

A well-recorded, well-mastered Compact

Disc is capable of extraordinarily high quality

results. But to realise the full potential of this

medium, one that today we perhaps take

for granted, you need the highest level of

reproduction: a truly extraordinary high-

fi delity system, unmatched in sound quality.

A Meridian system.

Meridian: CD Innovator

Of all manufacturers, Meridian has the

longest history of high-performance CD

players. Meridian’s fi rst CD player, MCD,

was introduced exactly 20 years ago. MCD

sounded radically better than anything else

available, and still stands comparison with

many so-called audiophile designs of today.

In the intervening 20 years, Meridian has

relentlessly pursued the path of making

better and better CD players, introducing

more than 24 models – each one better than

the one before. Every model has received

critical acclaim, and we have gathered more

with extended 5-year warranty

playback, and has held that pre-eminent

position since the release of the world’s

20 awards, including a Class ‘A’ rating

We showed how jitter was a major challenge

with the best sound, and ‘a reference’. This is

years, the CD catalogue is overwhelmingly

Today there are believed to be tens of

what the success of music on DVD or other

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1989

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tom-designed power supply, DAC and oscil-

1985

The idea of separating the transport from

the rest of the player – to minimise jitter

– was developed to produce the world’s

– the

The highly successful 200 Series included sev-

technology developed,

t

,

with up to 20-bit conversion capability and

Compact Disc Classic

The 500 Series, launched in 1993, developed

the 596, in 1997

the world

, with full DVD-Audio/Video capa-

1991

The

was highly regarded by