DECEMBER 8 – 14, 2011
The Ultimate Home Audio Experience
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manufacture small batches of product
of the highest quality featuring innova-
tions not available in mass-produced
competitors’ products.
Meridian co-founder Bob Stewart
tells Bloomberg, “We’re not a mass
manufacture. We’re not trying to
make…thousands in an afternoon at
the lowest possible price; we’re trying
to build to a standard. What we build
here is much more like making a musi-
cal instrument than making an iPod.”
They recently designed the sound
system inside the McLaren MP4-
12C, touted by First Drive as, “the
best handling supersports road and
weekend track car in history,” and at
a cool C$247,500 we’re glad to hear
a world-class stereo comes with it.
In more recent (and affordable) news,
Meridian speakers are standard on
the much-lauded Land Rover Evoque,
with the premium model featuring 17
speakers worth of surround sound.
The core technologies Meridian is
famous for include a number of signal
improvement processes like Meridian
High Resolution that improves the
quality of audio signals during transfer,
Apodising Filtre that cleans up signal
from inferior sources, as well as an
advanced Digital Signal Processing
crossover system that decides with
greater accuracy which frequencies
end up in which speakers. And we’ll
stop here. The Meridian website has
a good number of fascinating whitepa-
pers you can geek out on.
Relevant to you and your small
space is Meridian’s M80, into which
they have packed all the luxury audio-
awesomeness you can handle into a
unit the size of a tabletop radio.
This 80Watt, 2.1 Stereo Mighty
Mouse is not just for you–it’s for your
neighbours too. One of the great-
est dif½ culties of living big in a small
space is controlling the volume of your
system. The fact is that lower qual-
ity audio equipment require greater
volume to be heard. With a Meridian
system, you hear everything clearly
and beautifully balanced at a much
lower volume.
“Anybody can build a system with
bass. It’s the top end and upper infor-
mation that everybody misses. That’s
why even at low volume they provide
you with so much more detail. With
most ampli½ cations, the volume needs
to be turned up substantially to get the
same performance you’d get from a
Meridian system,” explains Brentview
Electronics resident Meridian specialist,
Guy Corapi.
A stereo widening feature helps
you focus the direction of the sound.
Room correction allows you to set the
M80 to function optimally on an open
desktop or tucked into a corner. The
tilt functions acts as though you put
a book under the unit when it is on
the top shelf. All these functions help
direct the sound toward you and away
from your walls.
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Regardless of the source of the sound,
the M80 up-converts audio to 192/196
KHZ using Meridian’s High Resolution
technology. This means everything on
your iPod from MP3s on, is played
back at the highest possible ½ delity.
Without the TV, connect it to your
computer using USB to listen in digital
sound while you stream your favourite
content. With a TV, you can use the
internal DVD player and plug it in using
the composite MS video outlet.
The CD/DVD drive accepts CD-DA,
CD-R/RW, MP3, WMA, DualDisc,
DVD-V, and DVD±R/RW–it’s simply
gluttonous.
When connecting to your iPod, all
the playlists on the iPod are displayed
on the M80 screen and accessible with
the M80 remote.
The radio features Digital Audio
Broadcasting (DAB) that displays the
artist and song. You can use the radio
feature with the built in alarm clock,
or select a standard tone.
Software upgrades are provided
free to customers by Brentview
Electronics. You may be wondering
why this is important. “I keep a list
of all Meridian clients. When there’s
a ½ rmware upgrade I contact them
and come over,” says Corapi. “You’ll
be constantly updated with the latest
software. The result is better sound.
You’d be surprised what an advance in
technology can do with digital sound.”
Updates may support other compo-
nents of your system as well, like Apple
products.
Brentview is Ontario’s only fully
authorized Meridian dealer, offering
the province’s largest selection of
Meridian products. “We carry high-
end product, the latest and greatest.
We have products you can’t ½ nd in the
big box stores–we only carry the best,”
proprietor Steve Deweerd explains.
And naturally you get the level of
personalized service you need with
high quality equipment, including
expert installation and guidance so you
are able to effectively use all the fea-
tures highly connective and advanced
equipment sometimes require.
Professional installation would have
been a help to these online message-
board users: “woke up and it’s as if an
earthquake happened or something–
Flat Screen was on the ¾ oor face ½ rst.”
This occurrence is so commonplace
that you cannot expect warranty
sympathy from any manufacturer, so
make sure you have a professional do
it right the ½ rst time.
5. The Sony Bravia fits nicely in any
compact space
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6. Details of stiched leather on the
Meridian M80
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7. Inside the workings of the M80
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8. The Meridian M80 gives you big
sound in a small space
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9. Three different leathers to outfit
your Meridian M80: chestnut,
ivory, and black
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