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Item Category:	Loudspeakers
Make:	Meridian Audio
Model:	DSP5000 v2
Age:	0 years 0 months
Condition (?):	New
Voltage:	230V 50Hz
Price New (if known):	£ 4540
Choice Hi-fi price:	£ 2450
Conditions of payment:	Or nearest offer
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Additional Details:

1pr of DSP5000 v2 in excellent condition. come with mains leads, M and S leads, feet, manual, MSR+ remote and the orignal boxes, They have only been taken out of the box for the photographs to be taken. a fantastic sounding speaker in lovely Rosewood Cabinets.


Acoustic system and format

The DSP5000 is a powerful 2.5-way active acoustic reflex design. The bass system uses two 160mm long-throw composite bass drivers and the cabinet vents through a rear facing port. This configuration, along with the active and DSP correction, delivers a combination of smooth powerful bass and very low mid-range colouration.

The tweeter is the Meridian 25mm aluminium-dome, silver-wire tweeter used in all the DSP loudspeakers.

Electronic system

Each speaker incorporates an electronic panel in the rear part of the cabinet. The speaker accepts digital signals and has two inputs. The input receiver uses a FIFO (First In First Out) memory buffer for the lowest possible jitter from almost any source.

Widely acclaimed by audio reviewers, the DSP5000 is unchallenged by any other system of this size and offers excellent value. It is ideal as a stereo pair, or linked with others in a surround system.

The crossovers, equalisation, location correction, protection and tone controls are all implemented in 100MHz Freescale Digital Signal Processors (DSP) inside each speaker. The DSP feeds carefully tailored individual signals to the bass, mid and tweeter DACs. DSP5000 uses three Meridian Class-A discrete 75W low-distortion power amplifiers – one to power each driver. The electronics are powered from a high-current toroidal transformer through a custom high-speed power supply.
2.5-way active loudspeaker with DSP crossover

Self-contained audio system, each comprising three custom drivers, three amplifiers, two digital converters, digital crossovers and advanced sound-shaping DSP computers

Remote controlled and requiring no unsightly speaker cables

Listener control over features including bass, treble tilt, listening axis, volume, time-compensated balance and absolute phase

Cabinet constructed from veneered MDF, braced and damped and available in black ash, cherry or rosewood finish

Horizontal centre channel available

Maximum output level up to 108dB spl

Technical Specification

Performance: Frequency response in-room within 3dB from 35Hz to over 20kHz. Linear-phase mid–top crossover, 6th-order Linkwitz-Riley bass–mid crossover. Output >108dB spl @ 1m on music material. Noise less than 15dB spl. Overall distortion typically <0.02% at any frequency or level.

Inputs: Two digital inputs to SPDIF standard; 32kHz–96kHz sampling rates at up to 24 bit; MHR support. (A future software update will enable support for 192kHz.)

Construction: 2.5-way acoustic reflex system. 2 x 160mm polypropylene bass drivers. 1 x 25mm aluminium-dome tweeter, silver wire, short horn-loaded with protective grille. Cabinet constructed in veneered MDF braced and damped, in black ash, cherry or rosewood finish. FIFO memory buffer input for the lowest possible jitter from almost any source. Four precision 128x oversampling converters for bass, mid and tweeter signals. Analogue gain and filtering using proprietary Meridian Class-A discrete amplification. Digital and conversion electronics constructed using advanced surface-mount techniques and partitioned 6-layer printed-circuit boards. Three 75W power amplifiers, one for each of the drivers. Power amplifiers use a unique feedback topology and precision local error-correction systems to achieve a performance equivalent to the conversion system.

Dimensions: 900mm (35.43in) H, 210 (8.27) W, 297 (11.69) D Weight 32kg (71lb) each

DSP: 100MHz Freescale digital signal processor. Digital crossover at 2.6kHz. Response correction for the whole system. Bass protection. User tone controls. Volume and phase control.

Controls: Rear-panel controls for power On/Off. MSR and RS232 port provide control over bass, treble tilt, listening axis, volume, time-compensated balance and absolute phase.

Front display: Eight-character display with system lights, can be blank.

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