This product is MQA-ready.
Allowing you to experience the full, intricate detail of a live performance for the first time in the history of recorded music.
The smallest of Meridian’s Special Edition range of enhanced DSP Loudspeakers, the DSP5200SE is under a metre high, but delivers exceptional performance. Here is where the Meridian DSP Loudspeaker philosophy really comes into its own, delivering simply stunning bass and full-range performance from a relatively small cabinet.
2014 marked the 25th anniversary of the launch of Meridian’s first digital loudspeaker – in fact the first digital loudspeaker in the world – the D600 in 1989.
The Special Edition DSP Loudspeaker Range is the result of Meridian’s ongoing research into how we, as humans, “hear” sound. These findings dictated improvements that have led to the loudspeaker’s lifelike performance. Quite simply, the Special Edition DSP Loudspeakers, and matching centre channels, are the best sounding loudspeakers Meridian has ever created.
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Finished as standard in a piano lacquer black or white, the Special Edition Range is also available in any of the 270 Meridian Select colours.
In 1989, Meridian revolutionized the loudspeaker market with the introduction of the world’s first Digital Active Loudspeaker: the D600. It was soon followed by the DSP6000, the first loudspeaker to include DSP – Digital Signal Processing – to process and enhance the vital functions of an audio system.
The DSP approach also eliminates the space, power, and thermal management requirements for other system components and, significantly, creates a system in which the individual components are all perfectly matched and sonically balanced.
A DSP Loudspeaker includes the entire system’s electronics inside the enclosure – the only thing that’s lacking is the audio source – providing dramatically increased efficiency, and enabling it to deliver a level of performance equivalent to a passive design of eight times its physical volume.
The Special Edition loudspeakers share the same enclosures and are visually identical to previous models (with the exception of the clamp rings). These enclosures feature a number of unique design elements and innovations that have been refined over the past 37 years of Meridian being a world-class loudspeaker manufacturer. These performance-improving factors impact choices of materials, shape, and even finish.
Loudspeaker enclosures should be completely inert and make no sonic contribution to the sound at all. Meridian utilizes “soundless” materials for the enclosure – notably Meridium in DSP8000SE and DSP7200SE. It is rigid and thus ensures you hear the only the loudspeaker – not the cabinet. All models are finished in a high gloss lacquer that forms a tight “skin” around the enclosure, reducing vibrations that can colour the sound.
The narrow shape emulates aspects of the human form, which psychoacoustics suggests provides a more realistic performance. Soft cabinet edges enhance the visual design, but they also avoid generating unwanted additional high frequency sounds that can blur the soundstage. For perfect stability, the loudspeaker stands on adjustable foot assemblies machined from solid aluminium, helping to eliminate microscopic vibrations that can rob a loudspeaker of that “you are there” quality.
Provide the most revealing, lifelike, and powerful performance of any Meridian loudspeakers to date.
Deliver more accurate time-domain response and significantly improved transient handling across the entire digital active system.
The narrow shape emulates aspects of the human form, which psychoacoustics suggests provides a more realistic performance.
Soft edges avoid generating unwanted additional high frequency sounds that can blur the soundstage.
For perfect stability, the loudspeaker stands on adjustable foot assemblies machined from solid aluminium. Meridian utilises “soundless” materials for the enclosure – notably Meridium. It’s rigid and thus ensures you hear the only the loudspeaker – not the cabinet.
Technical Specifications:-
PERFORMANCE - Frequency response in-room within 3dB from 35Hz to over 32kHz. Linear-phase mid/top crossover. Output >108dB spl @ 1m on music material. Noise less than 15dB spl. Overall distortion typically < 0.02% at any frequency or level.
INPUTS - Meridian SpeakerLink in and out (RJ45)
S/PDIF digital input, 32kHz–96kHz sampling rates at up to 24 bit with MHR support (phono).
OUTPUTS - 1x RJ45 with balanced digital audio and control for a second loudspeaker. Carries infra-red pickup for system automation.
DRIVERS - 2 x 160mm polypropylene bass drivers. 1 x 25mm (1") Meridian piston in short horn, beryllium dome with silver voice-coil.
ELECTRONICS - Two precision 24/192 oversampling converters for bass/mid and tweeter signals. Active bass/mid crossover. Digital and conversion electronics constructed using advanced surface-mount techniques and partitioned 6-layer printed-circuit boards.
DSP - 2 x Freescale 56367 running at 150MHz, 2 x 24-bit Multi-bit delta-sigma DACs with 128x oversampling. Crossover minimum-phase at 2.6kHz. Response correction for the whole system. Bass protection. User tone controls. Analogue/digital volume and phase control.
AMPLIFIERS - Bass: 1 x 75W Mid: 1 x 75W Treble: 1 x 75W Total: 225W
CONTROL - Rear-panel controls for Power On/Off. Full control via MSR+ and RS232 SpeakerLink carries Comms, serial and balanced digital audio via RJ45/CAT 5
DIMENSIONS - Vertical model: height: 903mm/36in (without spikes/feet); width: 300mm/ 12in at base, tapering to 179mm/7in; depth: 356mm/14in at base, tapering to 217mm/8.5in.
WEIGHT - 35kg packed.