Meridian Audio Speaker - Manual (Page 9)

If you remove, or disconnect, the
“head”, you can hear very little
definition. Psychoacoustically we are at
our best listening in small spaces, to
loudspeakers that have similar physical
characteristics to a speaking human
being.
Our loudspeakers are essentially
“human-sized” because psychoacoustic
research indicates that humans are most
highly developed to appreciate this size
of sound-producing system, and they
will thus sound the most natural.
As much effort goes into cabinet design
as into the electronics within, and the
keynote here is extremely high integrity.
Cabinets are heavy and rigid, allowing
no inadvertent movement. Typically,
they incorporate multiple layers of wood
and metal, bonded together for maxi-
mum damping.
The DSP6000 and DSP8000, for exam-
ple, include side-firing woofers that are
horizontally opposed, so that the net
movement is zero. Advanced materials
ensure that the cabinet is so dead that
movement stops at once when excita-
tion ceases, with no ringing.
Meridian DSP loudspeakers are perhaps
best thought of as musical instruments.
The most difficult sounds to reproduce
are those of individual instruments, such
as piano or flute, and small ensembles
that are on the same kind of scale as
the listening room.
If you were to record a live string quar-
tet in your listening environment, the
most difficult test of a “high fidelity”
system would be to replay that experi-
ence in the same room. Meridian DSP
loudspeakers rise to that challenge.
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