Manual de instrucciones de Meridian Audio 808.2

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808.2
Signature Reference Compact Disc Player
Product highlights
Highest quality CD player ever offered
by Meridian
Unique new proprietary filter with
‘apodizing’ performance realises the
promise of Compact Disc
New, improved DSP, CPU, clocking,
decoding, buffering and analogue
circuitry
SpeakerLink RJ45 single-wire audio/
control interfacing capability
808.2 Player-only version, or 808.2i
Player/Preamplifier version including
built-in stereo preamp functionality
S/PDIF coaxial and RJ45

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808.2 1984 Signature Reference Compact Disc Player Meridian MCD and Pro-MCD Meridian’s first CD player, the MCD, based on a Philips chassis with completely custom analogue circuitry, was the world’s first audiophile CD Player. Its successor, the Pro-MCD shown here, included a separate custom-designed power supply, DAC and Meridian: CD Innovator oscillator, mounted underneath the transport. Of all manufacturers, Meridian has the longest history of high-performance CD players. Meridian’s f

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808.2 Signature Reference Compact Disc Player The press on Meridian’s CD players… Why the 808? 48-bit internal precision. This is ‘true’ DSP Meridian decided to introduce the 808 upsampling, completely redesigned for the Meridian CD Player Signature Reference Compact Disc Player 808.2 and unlike anything else available in “…a breakthrough for CD players. …[Soundstage] is where the Meridian renders the competition irrelevant for several reasons. We have been both the marketplace. This upsamp

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808.2 Signature Reference Compact Disc Player 808.2 rear panel – the 808.2i is shown, with analogue and digital inputs Meridian’s goal was to invent a technology that stripped away this fundamental limitation in the making of the CD, taking the listener right back to the original higher- resolution sound – no mean ambition, nor a trivial task. But Meridian’s founder, Bob Stuart, was sure that high-definition sound could be achieved without excessive sample rates – if the filters were righ