808.2
Signature Reference Compact Disc Player
The press on Meridian’s CD players…
Meridian CD Player
“…a breakthrough for CD players. …[Soundstage] is where the Meridian renders the competition irrelevant and worthless.”
Meridian Pro-MCD
“I suspect that [the Meridian
Meridian 207
“The original
“There is nothing else on the market remotely like the Meridian 207… It is…one of the
Meridian 602/606
“In Meridian we might be looking at a company that has a real contribution to make towards raising CD performance.”
“…the 602 [via the 606] was damn near impossible to fault… Its resolution of the subtlest treble details was intricate to the point of being exquisite… the 602/606 turned out to be a very ‘special’ combination.”
Meridian 508
“…the Meridian 508.24…the world’s best
“…the 508.24’s measured performance reveals that Bob Stuart and his talented digital design team have done a fabulous job.”
Meridian 800
“…the 800 is perhaps the finest overall CD player I’ve ever laid ears on. When you consider that there are some
finest optical disc playing system we’ve encountered.”
“…I found that the Meridian… was clearly superior… not just to my reference components, but to any other CD front ends that I’ve auditioned or reviewed.…
The performance of Meridian’s 800/861 with CDs is superior to the performance you get with the great majority of SACDs
and
Meridian 808
“The 808 is worth every penny asked for it. …this deck is head and shoulders above almost everything else
I have ever heard. It’s beautiful, well built and sounds wonderful… After listening to this player for the last three months at least six (sometimes
The main thing is that the Meridian 808 is an extremely musical player that gets it right on all levels.”
Why the 808?
Meridian decided to introduce the 808 Signature Reference Compact Disc Player for several reasons. We have been both surprised and pleased by increasing levels of interest in our popular G Series CD players: this tells us that there is a strong element of listeners who do not want pictures or complications attached to their music enjoyment, and wish to take advantage of the extensive selection that is available on no medium, to date, other than Compact Disc.
Thus the 808.2 is offered as an exquisite
Meridian’s 808.2 is the latest in a series of optical disc players that use a specially- selected ROM drive for reading. The ROM drive allows multiple passes to be made, ensuring that the correct data are recovered from the disc and improving Compact Disc’s
To ensure the lowest possible jitter, 808.2 incorporates an entirely new clocking regime and employs three buffers, two of which are used as FIFOs in a completely redesigned buffering environment.
By the time the data is passed to the DACs or the digital output, the jitter is incredibly low – in fact 808.2 has the lowest jitter we have ever measured on a CD player: even better than the original 808’s 90 picoseconds, with the jitter spectrum held below 0.1Hz.
The signal path includes proprietary error correction and concealment, and Meridian’s acclaimed ‘Resolution Enhancement’ DSP, in which the original 44.1kHz,
808.2and unlike anything else available in the marketplace. This upsampling allows
The 808.2 employs the latest, exquisite
Delivering the promise of CD The new model includes many other new features, including the
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808.2perfectly upscales its outputs to 176.4kHz and 24 bits, significantly improving the sound.
But upsampling alone cannot improve on one aspect of CD: the original sampling rate of the recording. Digital audio captures sound up to half the sample rate and
you have to filter out any meaningless information above that frequency (22kHz in the case of CD).
Traditionally, the steep filters required to do this job have audibly degraded the sound. The earliest analogue filters caused enormous phase shifts at high frequencies, and with digital
Each 808.2 unit is individually