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I used Roon<\/a> with a combination of Meridian DSP and Monitor Audio speakers. I am sold on Roon’s interface and am a long time Meridian fanboy, so this was an easy one.<\/p>\n

Roon server, they call it a “core,” is running on a Hackintosh I built a few years ago<\/a>. It is still a pretty solid machine, 3.5 GHz i7 with four cores, SSD, etc. Roon is set up with a Tidal HiFi plan, which serves up at least CD quality (16 bit 44kHz) and also MQA (they call Masters, typically 24 bit 96 kHz), plus a local library of music on the server,which sits on a shelf in the Middle Atlantic rack in the mechanical room.<\/p>\n

We have two Meridian DSP speaker zones and four pairs of Monitor Audio in-ceiling speakers. The Meridian speakers are the main living area surround sound setup, which is a G61R processor hooked up to 2xDSP5500s (24\/96 model), 1xDSP5000C (also 24\/96), and a pair of DSP320s in the ceiling for surrounds. A Meridian 218<\/a> feeds the G61R through a Reviver<\/a> (and I am using Revivers for the older DSP speakers). Then we have a MS200<\/a> feeding an AC200 that is hooked up to a pair of DSP520s in the master bedroom.<\/p>\n

The Monitor Audio speakers (three pairs of CWT160s inside, one pair of AWC265s outside under a soffit over the main deck area) are fed by MS200s and \u00a0Meridian 258<\/a>, and I ran Monoprice 12 gauge speaker wire<\/a>, which was maybe overkill, 14 gauge or even 16 gauge might have been fine. But while the walls were open I figured might as well err on the side of caution and run fairly hefty wires.<\/p>\n

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I put all of the Meridian end points on fixed IP addresses. While setting up I noticed firmware versions were not consistent. We have a Mac household and as far as I can tell the only way to update firmware in the MS200s, maybe the 218 too, is to fire up the Meridian Sooloos Configuration utility on a Windows machine. I always had trouble configuring Meridian kit with a Mac running Windows in a virtual machine, so I knuckled under and bought a reconditioned Dell Latitude 630 with a SSD on eBay for $225. The way the Sooloos configuration tool updates things is strange, it just does it, no messages, no user interaction required or possible.<\/p>\n

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System is awesome. Sound is great, interface is easy to use, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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