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Recent Awards for Meridian

Meridian has been fortunate to collect many awards for its products. Here are a few recent ones.

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Enjoy the Music have awarded their Blue Note, Best of 2004 Award to Meridian for the G08 Upsampling CD Player.

Phil Gold said: "If I were in the market for a CD player I would purchase this unit without hesitation."

Read the full review on line.


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Our very popular loudspeaker, DSP5000 has just received an award.

Italy's Fedelta del Suono Magazine has awarded its Oscar for 2004 to the Meridian DSP5000 in the loudspeaker category.

The DSP5000 is Meridian's delightful compact floor-standing system which includes a full digital crossover and equalisation system, three crystal-clear power amplifiers and full remote control. For music playback all you need is a pair of these and one of our source components such as G91, G08 or 808.


 

Our G98 has just won the coveted What Hi-Fi Award for the best DVD Player over £1000 in 2004! In their summary they said:
"Meridian's astonishing mixture of innovative design, image quality and sonic superiority places the G98 at the top of its class" Of the picture they said: "In action, digital video pictures via the HDMI output are particularly impressive, offering sensational depth of field, intricate detail and natural colours .." and the sound? They said, " Sound quality id peerless, bass weight and articulation are phenomenal, while the upsampling mode adds a sheen of refinement ... unearthing previously unheard nuances .."


 

Meridian G91 and G98 have received the Hi-Fi Choice Gold Award for the Best DVD Players. See the December issue.

"Digital specialist Meridian played a major role in the development of DVD-Audio as a hi-res music format. So it comes as no surprise to discover that its latest DVD players are state of the art, both in video performance and, crucially, sound quality from CD and DVD-A."

"With something this well made, from a high-end brand with the longest heritage in digital audio, it's no real surprise that the sound is refined and extended, regardless of source.... In picture terms .. this is one of those rare players that raises the performance bar so high ... Put simply, the G91 is packed with broadcast-quality electronics and delivers broadcast-standard pictures."


 

We are delighted to report that at the recent Cedia convention, we received an award from Electronic House.

G68, our already three-time award-wining surround controller was voted Product of the Year in the Home Theatre category.

Read more about the G68


 

Meridian Audio is thrilled to announce that the G68 Surround Controller has been honoured with the prestigious 2004 Innovations Design and Engineering Award.

Innovations 2004 is sponsored by Consumer Electronics Association and endorsed by the Industrial Designers Society of America. As the most widely renowned consumer technology awards program, Innovations 2004 recognizes the best designed and engineered products in a variety of categories.

Read more about G68; also see the press release.


Meridian Audio, the leading digital home theater manufacturer returns from the 2004 International CES Show victorious.

Having already been awarded the prestigious Innovations Award from CES for the G68 beforehand, during the show the G68 was dubbed Best of CES in High End Audio by TechTV. Read more in the press release.


 

AudioRevolution.com named the Meridian 598 'CD/DVD Player of 2002'.

Electronic House named the Meridian 800 CD/DVD Player 'Product of the Year'.

What HiFi recently gave a 'Best Buy' to the Meridian 507 CD Player.

596 was awarded the coveted 2001 Diapason d'Or award for its performance as the 'Best CD player regardless of price ...'


 
 

Stereophile Ratings for 2002.
Class A ratings for Reference 861 (listed in two categories as preamp and processor). Class A for DSP8000, DSP6000, 518 Processor and Class B ratings for DSP5000.
Last but by no means least, a new category, Class A+ for our Meridian Reference 800 CD/DVD/DVD-Audio Player awarded in three separate categories: DVD-Audio, DVD-Video and CD!


Stereophile Guide to Home Theater just published its Recommended Component Ratings for 2002. In this list all three of Meridian's Surround Decoders get the highest ratings: Class AAA for 861 and 568; Class AA for 561. Meridian are clearly seen to lead the field!  New ratings this year include AAA for 596 and 562V.2.


800 Series 3 voted 'Best Product of 2001' by Secrets of High Fidelity and Home Theatre.

Editor's Choice Platinum Award for Meridian 568, Best Surround Processor 2001 from Stereophile Guide to Home Theater.


 
 

Editor's Choice Award for 2001 given to Meridian Digital Theatre by Perfect Vision.


What Hi-Fi Awards 2001 Meridian pulled a hat-trick with:
568 Best Buy AV Processor (also winner in 2000)
588 Best Buy CD Player
596 Best Buy DVD Player


 
 

Meridian 800 Reference CD Machine received the High-End Audio Excellence Award from Stereo Hi-Fi and Home Theatre in Australia. It's so good in all and every respect that all logical financial hi-fi decisions will go out of the window: Winner!


 

Audio Revolution voted DSP5000 as 'Best Speaker of 2001'. Why not! Read the DSP5000 info sheet

 


 
 

'Best of the Best' Award for Meridian's DSP8000 from Robb Report.


 

Rick McCallum

More a testimonial than an award! Among the great feedback we get at Meridian, we were especially proud of this one from Rick McCallum (Star Wars Producer): "Thankyou .. especially for the use of the most awesome components made in the world".

 

Platinum award for Meridian 861 Reference Surround Controller from Stereophile Guide to Home Theatre.

CD Player of the year! Already with a Class A rating, Meridian's 508 24bit has been voted CD Player of the year by Stereophile.

Stereophile Guide to Home Theatre May 1998 issue gave AAA to the Meridian 586.2.

 

 

Home Cinema Choice nominated Meridian's Bob Stuart  'Personality of the Year' for work on Digital Theatre, new formats and MLP.

 
     

Grand slam at At Cedia 99.  The Academy Advancing High-Performance Audio Video gave Meridian no less than four Golden Note Awards. The Meridian 861 won in two categories: 'Best 2-channel preamp' and 'Best audio processor'. Also we won 'Most aesthetic design' for the 800 Series.

Last, but not least 'Most innovative audio technology' was awarded to MLP.

 

HiFi News presented Meridian's Bob Stuart with this award for 'Outstanding Industry Contribution' for work on new formats.

 
 

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15 April 2007