Meridian 568Old info on my trusty
Meridian 568. It's such a classic and a featured part of my system
for so long, that I keep this info around.
At
the heart of his system is the wonderful
Meridian 568 surround
processor.
This unit has the world's best synthesized soundfields, with the
exclusive Trifield being the best for enhancing the reproduction
from two channel audio sources.
Its implementation of Dolby Digital and DTS is excellent, much
preferred to the 'canned' chip implementations other processors use.
Read the rave reviews of the benchmark processor: By
John Kotches for WidescreenReview, and the one at
Secrets of High Fidelity
And for those Meridian owners, or those
curious about what we have to say, here is a great
Meridian
discussion Forum.
Highlights of this processor are:
- Fully digital signal processing
- Dolby Pro-Logic and Prologic IIx decoding
in the digital domain
- THX certified with THX DD and DTS modes
- Eight Digital or Analogue outputs
-
Ambisonics
decoding
- Trifield soundfield processing
- Dolby Digital with EX support
- DTS
- Upsampling inputs with Jitter reduction
- 7.1 outputs with support for steered sides
and rears
- Time aligned speaker outputs
In addition to the 568, I have a
Meridian 518 processor to handle
de-jittering the various DVR box digital audio outputs. Review of
the
518 here.