Boothroyd Stuart Meridian 101/105 / Revisited

[Neil McCauley]

http://bit.ly/gzQ5p1

[Gerry]

Howard

Link not working.

Regards

[Reid Malenfant]

Works for me Gerry I'm just attempting to recall what Meridian equipment i fixed a good few years ago that happened to use an SMPS power supply in the power amplifiers & appeared to be bolted together with a couple of round bars. The whole thing was modular & included quite a few seperate pieces including MC or MM phono amp, pre amp & power amplifiers that were mono blocks.

Odd bit of kit but it certainly sounded quite decent once working

[greendriver]

Fascinating stuff. I couldn't afford 105's, but I did pair a 101 with a quad 405-2 and it made a very attractive combination, the slightly laid back quad taming the slightly sharp & cold 101

[Darren]

Could we please stop talking about these amps right now?
Infact could Marco lock the thread please?
I'm looking for a set of these at low cost and this just isn't helping me. I know you will all understand.

[DSJR]

They weren't that good when new, the 105's were hard as nails due to crossover distortion and the 101 had gone badly off the boil by then. It wasn't until the 101B version of the early 80's that I think it recovered - and we sold a lot of Meridian back then...

[Barry]

Excellent review Howard and a most interesting read (sorry Darren!)

Regards

[Neil McCauley]

Fascinating stuff. I couldn't afford 105's, but I did pair a 101 with a quad 405-2 and it made a very attractive combination, the slightly laid back quad taming the slightly sharp & cold 101

Ah yes. I forgot about this combination. i agree 100% with your observation. Thank you for jogging my memory. H

[hifi_dave]

They weren't that good when new, the 105's were hard as nails due to crossover distortion and the 101 had gone badly off the boil by then. It wasn't until the 101B version of the early 80's that I think it recovered - and we sold a lot of Meridian back then...

We could never get on with them as we always had better for less. It was interesting to pit the far less expensive Quantum pre/power up against the Meridian, which is why we ended up with a waiting list of a year for Quantum. We also had some interesting blow ups with the 105.

[The Grand Wazoo]

I'm just attempting to recall what Meridian equipment i fixed a good few years ago that happened to use an SMPS power supply in the power amplifiers & appeared to be bolted together with a couple of round bars. The whole thing was modular & included quite a few seperate pieces including MC or MM phono amp, pre amp & power amplifiers that were mono blocks.

That would be the Meridian Component amplifier:



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