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Meridian DSP7200SE Active Floorstanding Speakers (Pair)

Meridian DSP7200SE Active Floorstanding Speakers (Pair)

The Special Edition DSP7200 demonstrates the ultimate expression of high-resolution audio that can be achieved within a loudspeaker of its size.

Regular price £35,000.00 GBP
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Finish: Gloss Black

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Description

The Special Edition series of Meridian loudspeakers represent the pinnacle of Meridian’s loudspeaker design and development programme and are the most advanced loudspeakers that Meridian has produced to date.

Built by hand in the UK, each Meridian Special Edition DSP7200 is a Digital Active loudspeaker containing Digital Signal Processing (DSP) technology. This ingenious, yet elegant design means that the loudspeaker enclosure contains the entire system’s electronics including its amplification. In common with the other loudspeakers in the Special Edition series, a suite of innovative Meridian technologies is also provided.

With an ability to deliver the very best from High Resolution sources, including MQA, the performance of the Meridian Special Edition DSP7200 demonstrates why Meridian is widely regarded as the Pioneer of High Resolution Audio.

Key Features:

  • Outstanding performance. Four powerful wide range 150W amplifiers deliver a maximum output level of 118dB at 1m.
  • Light weight, dual voice coil, Beryllium tweeter for refined high frequency performance (up to 32kHz).
  • Clamp rings ensure that the bass and midrange drivers are isolated from the cabinet, giving the most controlled and detailed sound possible.
  • New extended-bandwidth analogue electronics, optimised to deliver maximum performance from high-resolution recordings.

Digital Signal Processing

As pioneers and leaders in the field of Digital Signal Processing (DSP) technology, Meridian is able to deliver your music authentically to recreate the passion and involvement of your musical moments. Power-efficient, active DSP crossovers are individually tailored to distribute music to each speaker, bringing your music to life.

DSP Loudspeakers

The traditional setup – amplifiers driving passive loudspeakers – is inefficient, limiting sound quality. Meridian loudspeakers contain a complete, matched audio system with efficient DSP crossovers, multiple DACs and driver-specific amplifiers, giving higher overall quality, less power use, and the performance of a traditional loudspeaker eight times the physical volume.

Meridium

Loudspeaker enclosures often vibrate, colouring the sound, making it less lifelike. Our most advanced loudspeakers use a cabinet construction material unique to Meridian: Meridium features highest-grade laminated plywood layers bonded to an aluminium core, allowing the loudspeaker to reproduce music accurately without adding its own sound.

SpeakerLink

Traditional audio systems often require large, expensive cables to maintain their performance. Meridian's SpeakerLink uses an “Ethernet style” cable that delivers pristine digital sound and control down a single cable between Meridian components. The result is simple, unobtrusive, and cost-effective cables that are easy to install

FIFO Buffering

Each sample of a digital recording must remain evenly spaced in time. Unfortunately, timing can vary, especially when reading discs. This is “jitter”, degrading music's sense of space and diminishing realism. Meridian's multiple “First In, First Out” buffering system minimises jitter, ensuring perfect timing and improved clarity. You enjoy a clearer feeling of the instruments and their interrelationship.

Meridian Apodising Filter

Filters are critical in digital audio. Commonly they introduce distortion and harshness because of "pre-ringing". Early digital recordings suffer from harshness too, due to primitive filters. After painstaking research, Meridian developed a special filter that avoids pre-ringing, so it can be steeper, cleaning up the effects of early filters. The result: a better, cleaner sound from recordings old and new.

Enhanced Bass Alignment (EBA)

High or low, all sounds travel at the same speed, so all the sounds from a live musical event arrive at your ear at the same time, whatever frequencies they contain. Loudspeakers, however, have a problem when playing low frequency sounds at the same time as mid and high frequencies – the bass arrives late, and the deeper the sound, the later it arrives. This delayed bass causes music to lose its impact and reduces the sense of the recorded space – it is often described as “boomy”.

The goal is to have time-accurate loudspeakers, where all reproduced frequencies start and end at the same time. In a loudspeaker, this timing is affected by the crossover, driver, and enclosure type. To eliminate the delay between low, and mid and high frequencies, Meridian has designed a combination of digital filters and time delays for the mid and high frequencies. This solution enables the mid and high frequencies to “wait” for the low frequencies, delivering perfectly-timed music playback.

Mid and high frequencies are delayed to time-align them, while upper bass is delayed with a special type of patented filter. These features must be implemented entirely in the digital domain, making them impossible to achieve in any passive or analogue-active loudspeaker design.

Enhanced Bass Alignment provides accurate time-alignment of the drivers in the system, delivering exceptional imaging and a clear, transparent, more life like sound.

Specifications

AUDIO INPUTS

  • Meridian SpeakerLink (RJ45) & RCA phono digital inputs accepting 32kHz to 96kHz sampling rates at up to 24-bit

AUDIO OUTPUTS

  • Meridian SpeakerLink (RJ45) & RCA phono digital outputs delivering 32kHz to 96kHz sampling rates at up to 24-bit

PERFORMANCE

  • Peak SPL: 118dB at 1m (music material)
  • Noise less than 15dB SPL
  • Frequency response in-room within 3dB: 30Hz to over 32kHz

AMPLIFIERS

  • 4 x 150W (600W)
  • Overall distortion typically <0.02% at any frequency or level

BASS DRIVERS

  • 2 x 200mm long-throw

MID DRIVER

  • 160mm polypropylene

BERYLLIUM DOME TWEETER

  • 25mm (1”) Meridian piston in short-horn, beryllium dome with silver voice-coil.

DISPLAY

  • Eight-character display with additional status indicators; can be blanked in use

DIMENSIONS / WEIGHT

  • HEIGHT; 1072mm [42.2in] (Without feet/spikes)
  • WIDTH: 178mm [7in] tapering to 350mm [13.8in]
  • DEPTH: 220mm [8.7in] tapering to 422mm [16.6in]
  • FOOTPRINT (W x D): 350mm [13.8in] x 422mm [16.6in]
  • WEIGHT: 55kg [121lbs]

POWER

  • 20VA standby; 600VA max

3 Year Warranty

+ 2 Year Extended Warranty available (totalling to 5 years) when you register your product on the Meridian website.

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The warranty period starts from the date of purchase and covers you from manufacturing defects & unexpected faults through normal use. It does NOT cover you from accidental damage, damage caused by usage outside of product specifications or expected product wear and tear.

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