Meridian 808.3 CD Player23/06/2010
The 808 reference CD player was first introduced in 2004 to immediate acclaim. Meridian hailed it as the best CD player they had ever made. But, since then, developments in technology and innovations conceived by Meridian have made it possible to make it even better. Now, Meridian introduces the third-generation 808 – the 808.3, it was specifically developed to render the very best sound from Compact Disc and network audio. Meridian’s 808.3 is the latest in a series of optical disc players that use a new CD-ROM drive for reading. This drive allows multiple passes to be made, ensuring that the correct data are recovered from the disc and improving Compact Disc’s error-correction a hundred fold. It also allows complete buffering of the recovered data To ensure the lowest possible jitter, 808.3 incorporates an entirely new clocking regime. By the time the data is passed to the DACs or the digital outputs, the jitter is incredibly low – in fact 808.3 has the lowest jitter measured on a CD player.
You can connect the 808.3 directly to two of Meridian’s digital active loudspeakers using Ethernet cables, eliminating the need for a preamp or it can be used with separate amplifiers. Using an optional interface card, you can connect to the Meridian-Sooloos music server in order to route music from the server directly into the 808.3. With playback of CDs, music stored on the server, and tunes from the online Rhapsody service sourced through the server.
We now have it on demonstration and available in Graphite, Silver, Piano-Lacquer Black and the complete range of Meridian Select colours.
