CES 2009 - MERIDIAN + SoolooS

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DANG!

I thought I was going to be the first post in here, but howie beat me to it!

Last time I dilly-dally with resizing pics!

Anyhow, the Meridian/SoolooS booth was quite amazing a few months ago, and the pics are an excerpt of the higher end 8000 line; Meridian was also demo'ing the 6000 line in a different suite playing The Dark Knight (or was it Begins... but either way, it was one of the new Batman's).

Next post will have pics.

BTW the SoolooS is F*****G COOL!

Perhaps the name of this forum should be Meridian/SoolooS since they are one!

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And since this is "lighter" yet totally "hot" digital-fare, once again I present:

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[howiebrou]

Great pics! Sorry didn't mean to beat you to the punch. It was looking all lonely that's all.......

[Tonepub]

Ive been a happy Sooloos owner since the beginning! Mine's still not half full. I think about 4500 CD's on it, with room for about 11,000. Who wants to lend me their CD collection?



Seriously, I still have about 1800 CD's to load yet. But I really like it.

I was amused that we wrote the review on it a year before TAS and Stereophile but was flattered that TAS's headline was "I have seen the future of music"...

Our headline on the cover was "The future of Music".. Hmmm.

But the Sooloos is killer. Haven't had a stitch of trouble with it and it worked like a charm when we had the DSP7200's in for review. Great system that doesn't take up much space!


Howie, you've got the 808.2, all you need is to plug the Sooloos into the dig input. It works fantastic together!!!

[Still-One]

Originally Posted by tonepub

Ive been a happy Sooloos owner since the beginning! Mine's still not half full. I think about 4500 CD's on it, with room for about 11,000. Who wants to lend me their CD collection?

But the Sooloos is killer. Haven't had a stitch of trouble with it and it worked like a charm when we had the DSP7200's in for review. Great system that doesn't take up much space!


Howie, you've got the 808.2, all you need is to plug the Sooloos into the dig input. It works fantastic together!!!

Jeff

Does the Sooloos allow you to save your discs "bit for bit" as an alternative to FLAC. Also do you know if it is possible to download some of the hi rez files that are currently available to the unit?
Jim

[howiebrou]

Originally Posted by tonepub

Howie, you've got the 808.2, all you need is to plug the Sooloos into the dig input. It works fantastic together!!!

Oh please don't say that! Actually with the DSP speakers you don't even need the cdp .

My 861 has arrived at the dealer so gotta go and pick it up sometime

howie

[Victor]

I,ve been reading about the Sooloos having the best user interface for years, I think I may be ready to take the plunge and finally get a Sooloos for my system. I do have a few questions though.

Originally Posted by tonepub

Ive been a happy Sooloos owner since the beginning! Mine's still not half full. I think about 4500 CD's on it, with room for about 11,000.

The Meridian web site shows storage of 2400 per twinstore. Do you have 5 twin stores?

Originally Posted by tonepub

I was amused that we wrote the review on it a year before TAS and Stereophile but was flattered that TAS's headline was "I have seen the future of music"...

I just read your review of the Sooloos, thanks for some more good writing. In your review you said if you have 2 twin stores you can set one to be the content and the other to be the backup, if you have only one twin store can you set it to be all content with no backup? Is this how you have so much storage space?

Originally Posted by tonepub

But the Sooloos is killer. Haven't had a stitch of trouble with it and it worked like a charm when we had the DSP7200's in for review. Great system that doesn't take up much space!

On the control 10 can you use the digital output to a DAC and the Meridian speakers link to some Meridian DSP speakers at the same time making the Control 10 a 2 zone controller?

[Tonepub]

Originally Posted by Victor

I,ve been reading about the Sooloos having the best user interface for years, I think I may be ready to take the plunge and finally get a Sooloos for my system. I do have a few questions though.


The Meridian web site shows storage of 2400 per twinstore. Do you have 5 twin stores?

I just read your review of the Sooloos, thanks for some more good writing. In your review you said if you have 2 twin stores you can set one to be the content and the other to be the backup, if you have only one twin store can you set it to be all content with no backup? Is this how you have so much storage space?


On the control 10 can you use the digital output to a DAC and the Meridian speakers link to some Meridian DSP speakers at the same time making the Control 10 a 2 zone controller?

HI Victor, actually I have two of the older Store two's. They each have 2TB of storage and I'm using a Drobo for backup. What you can do (and this is Sooloos approved) is to replace the 1TB drives in a TwinStore with 2tb drives. When you turn it on from cold, it reformats everything. I believe in the next release of the software, you will be able to make a twinstore completely storage or backup.

Im not sure about the two zones on a control 10, you may have to ask Meridian about that...

Also, my collection has grown a lot since the original post, I'm up to 6300 CD's now....

If you do replace the drives in your twin stores, spend a little more money and get "Enterprise Quality" drives. These have a much longer MTBF (Mean time between failure) rating and should last 2-4 times longer than standard drives.

The Big diff between the older Store One and Store Two and the new TwinStore units is the network speed. The old ones like mine are only megabit (100-bt) speed and the TwinStore is gigabit (1000-bt) network speed. The bottom line is that with my drives, 2TB takes about three days to backup and three to restore. With the new drives, you should be able to do a backup in about 6 hours!

Hope that helps a bit. I have to say I really enjoy my Sooloos, especially now that it can hold 24/96 files. I've been slowly digitizing some LP favorites to the Sooloos, making more of my collection accessible. I figure by the time I retire, I'll be able to digitize most of it! (and then need more space!)