Meridian America C61R specifications Includes Meridian’s powerful, Room Correction system

MERIDIAN C SERIES PRELIMINARY

C61R Digital Surround Controller

Versatile, rack-mounted digital surround processor with Meridian Room Correction, based on the G61R

Meridian’s C Series offers a range of robust, precision-made audio/video components	Includes Meridian’s powerful
designed with the custom installation market in mind, extending Meridian’s strong	Room Correction system
reputation for the highest possible audio and video quality into new areas.

The line includes power amplifiers, surround processors and all the building-blocks of a powerful system for custom installation applications. All are fitted with rack-mounting ears and are equipped with remote control capability where appropriate.

The elegant matte-black rack-mount enclosures include a transparent front panel inset which can be removed for access.

5 digital optical and 6 digital coax stereo inputs

5 stereo analogue inputs

10 digital surround and 8 ana- logue surround outputs

The C61R is a rack-mounted processor based on Meridian’s extremely popular G61 Digital Surround Controller, optimised for custom installation applications. It, in turn, is a development of the successful G68, which itself builds on the technology that went into Meridian’s flagship, AAA-rated

861 surround processor, and includes the award-winning Meridian Room Correction system to manage room reverberation and improve the overall listening experience.

At the heart of the C61R is a powerful DSP engine consisting of three Motorola 56367s and a 56371 running at 150MHz

–delivering in excess of 500MIPS (million instructions per second). Processing is performed at high sample rates and with 48-bit precision throughout, ensuring that all filtering, processing and other operations are carried out far, far above the limits of human hearing. The C61R is thus ideal for the very latest in digital audio. For superior audio quality, incoming analogue signals are converted to 24-bit, high-sample-rate digital data via multibit Delta-Sigma converters as soon as they enter the processor, and all digital signals are reclocked to minimize jitter and maintain total data integrity.

The C61R includes two 6-channel S/PDIF digital inputs (coax), four stereo Toslink optical inputs, and six stereo coax digital inputs. There is also a USB Audio input, allowing a computer system to be hooked up directly for audio replay, the processor being seen as an external audio device by the computer. In addition, there’s

a6-channel analogue input, and five stereo analogue ins. All the inputs are

reconfigurable for an incredible degree of flexibility, and analogue inputs are converted to digital at high resolution – 24-bit, 96kHz.

The C61R combines controller and surround processor functions, meeting the latest THX Ultra 2 specifications and including the latest superb-quality AAC, MPEG, DTS, Dolby, Trifield and Ambisonic (both 2-channel UHJ and B-Format, to 4, 5, 6 or 7 speakers) decoding. The decoders consist almost exclusively of our own code, giving them superior integration with the Meridian design philosophy, as well as superior performance.

The C61’s ‘Smart Source’ feature continually monitors the digital inputs and automatically loads the correct decoding software for the format, speaker layout and encoding of the incoming signal. This capability is enhanced by MHR SmartLink, which provides a digital link between a Meridian optical disc player and processor, carrying explicit information about the nature of the datastream.

You can also store separate user parameters for each source (such as DVD) depending on whether the incoming signal is stereo or surround, so that any source material is played with the DSP mode of your choice.

The C61R features eight analogue outputs for front, rear, centre and sub connections, plus two additional outputs for other applications. Ten digital surround outputs are provided, including front, rear, side, centre/sub and again include an additional output pair.

Analogue and 2 digital multichannel inputs

Powerful DSP engine with four processors delivering over 500MIPS

On-board AAC decoding, plus Dolby Digital, DTS, MPEG, Ambisonics and acclaimed Trifield decoding

THX Surround EX Ultra 2 certified

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