Meridian Audio [SEP] inception
Meridian Audio
Meridian Audio is an English manufacturer of high-performance, high-fidelity audio and video components and systems founded in 1977 by Bob Stuart and Allen Boothroyd.
History.
Based in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, Meridian Audio was founded by John Robert (Bob) Stuart and Allen Boothroyd in 1977. Stuart continues to lead the company and heads all technological developments; Boothroyd - who has his own design consultancy on the outskirts of Cambridge - is still actively involved in many aspects of product design. Since the company
's inception, all Meridian products have been conceived, engineered and built in the UK.
The company was the first to introduce active loudspeakers (loudspeakers with power amplifiers inside the cabinet) designed for the domestic market, and was the first British company to manufacture a CD player in 1983. The Meridian MCD, launched in 1985, was the first audiophile CD player. In his review of the MCD, audio engineer and "Stereophile" founder J. Gordon Holt wrote, "For the first time, the sound of the