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The basic performance of MERIDIAN is excellent, so I think the sound quality will be even better if you replace it with a high precision clock. Sound Den in Japan sells and replaces high precision clocks.

I had a similair experience with an old (1999) Denon 5000 dvd/cd player, what a nice natural sounding dac is in inside this unit (4 × pcm 1704 Burr Brown dac chips). I like it better than the modern dacs I own. Also a litle less forward and maybe slightly less detail but so smooth sounding, no harshness like a lot of the modern stuff. These old r2r dacs only 24 bits but sound much more analogue and you can listen to them for hours.

Can you explain how adapting USB to coaxial improved sound quality? I thought it would be identical because they are both digital.

Me gusta que no solo se haga una reseña de un producto, sino que se hable de sus distintas posibilidades de conexión. Es la primera vez que veo tu canal, porque mi SMSL SU-1 llega este próximo lunes. Felicidades desde Ciudad de México!!!

Try this cd-player with much more advanced modern DAC from Topping, SMSL or Denafrips. It deserves it and you wil be amazed. :)

I can't tell the difference between a mid-rate mp3 and a CD. But this is still a fascinating video.

Muy completo el informe ,gracias,

Good review... It looks just like mine.

Excellent story! It also brings back memories of when I was a teenager, this Meridian CD player was my dream! Glad to hear it still stands the test of time. These days I have a better sounding system than I ever thought possible and my dream CD player is the Teac VRDS-701.

Can someone please show me the evidence for that more detailed sound stage, or inky blackness? If not, explain how it isn't all in the mind of the superlative thrower.

Appreciate the review. I also agree that the performance of the 206 is amazing and certainly holds its own in today’s market, but I disagree regarding recommending purchasing any older digital components for the simple fact, there is virtually no support for these older units. I sold Meridian for years and sadly the company isn’t the same. Buyer beware. Thanks for the review.

I used to own one:-)

Hi thank you very much for your very valuable test I have just a question Maybe you told that already but i am afraid i missed it I understand that the soundstage from the Meridian alone is very good But what about it when the SMSL dac is used ? i am obsessed about the 3D effect of soundstage It is very important to me Thanks a lot again and kind regards, gino P.S. i have already the SMSL dac but always looking for something really better

Bought this CD player back in 1992 after my first generation Technics failed. Even after all this time I still think it is a superb player

The 206 into the 203 was the best I heard in the early 1990s. I loved it so much I ended up buying a G08.2 in 2012, just before Meridian ceased its production. It has digital out allowing me to continue to use it as a transport - pity it has no digital in, otherwise I would have started streaming,

why are you using a $79.99 dac with OP amps and not the nicer discrete op amps either.

Great review thank you. Just highlighted all the hype that we endure with the latest this and that being better than the older model.Its the corporate world that we live in .

Sorbothane, damn. Showing my age but great to see the classic top of the line gear in action. Sad to see the Rotel failing to cut the mustard. Got an ageing Myryad Z20 DAC myself, but anything beyond 24/192 is overkill I reckon and I like the way it sounds.

This is not surprising. Perhaps a more interesting review would be on a older messiah dac vs newer dacs. I have to say this much smsl is not in the same league even being newer. You can have all the latest fancy chips, converters etc in a dac but it ALWAYS comes down to how it's implemented. It's in the meridian or an older high end dac like enlightened audio designs , or theta digital and how good their analog output stage and power supply. Many if these older designs were expensive and a classic for a reason. I have dacs from enlightened audio designs that have 22 different power supply filtering sections and separate for each section. You won't get that from even today's cheap dacs.

I have a lg v60 phone and I'm going to get a liquid spark amplifier. Can i use the smsl su1 together using what cables a little help here im new to the audio hobby?

Amazing little box, I have a Wiim Mini streaming into the SU1 and she's going to my Denon receiver and I must say best 79 bucks I have ever spent.

Is this DAC suitable for use with my TV audio/video system?

But damn its ugly

You need a modern player🙈.

I am still listening to my Meridian 508 20 bit CD Player everyday, it is more comfortable to listen to compared to most of today’s high end CD players, its internal digital to analog converter is still very much on par with today’s external DACs.

Based on what both units are and their lack of I2s interfaces this eval would be difficult to judge.

It's a great transport & dac combo, I had one from 1991-2004, before I upgrade to a Sony xa9000es sacd player, nice video 👍

How in the world can someone talk about hearing when he has lost 20% of it to noise his own ears are making! 90% of all humans have a hearing deficiency - so what is this all about listening to noise and ignoring it or ignoring the facts.

I've still got my 208 CD/Pre Amp, M30 MK2 active standmounts. Still sounds amazing. I still have the 209 remote controller. It's a work of art.

Nice review. I have the 200/203 separates that I have owned since the Nineties. I use the 200 transport in my system as it is of superb build quality although I found the 203 DAC to be far less engaging than the DAC in my Parasound P6 preamp. I have thought about adding a higher end outboard DAC but I question if the money spent would improve the sound enough to make it worthwhile. Cheers

Very interesting article, quite a surprise. Maybe digital drives have gone the way of vinyl records in the 80s / 90s, where I felt records were made so cheaply/poorly as a way to try and compete with more expensive CDs back in the day

Meridian was one of those rare companies that put huge effort into their gear. Expensive yes, but worth it.

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Resolving digital material really well just means it got the zeros and ones correct. It's either correct or it isn't correct for digital.

Listened to one these years ago. It was very good tbh. I now use a Musical Fidelity 308cr and trivista 21 dac both circa early 2000s. The DAC has been modified and sounds really nice.

Very broadly speaking, anything with a DAC beginning TDA15xx will be at least musical and 3D. Delta sigma is not to my liking.

so i got a MAcbook pro 2010 where it serves as my DJying source with iTunes, then a Mixer and from here it connects to 4 speakers. What is your thoughts about HOW to use this DAC having this set up ? I mainly play old Tango songs to big room audiences (Milongas)

Love the styling pinstripes, well thought put comments too 😊

How would this cartridge perform on a Graham Engineering Phantom II tone arm with a Bob’s Devices SUT Vs. the MM Ortofon 2M Black LVB 250?

Where did you purchase your linear power supply? Many thanks.

What are your speakers?

Nice to see another VPI Scout 1.1 owner. I have a heavy three level wood stereo rack full of gear with two turntables on top. I use a square Sorbothane pad on thin mousepad like surface underneath the motor. I use Sorbothane round pads (with thin cardboard so as not to stick to the stereo rack) underneath each foot of both turntables. Finally, I have a 1/2 inch by 2-inch plastic pad nailed to the bottom of each wooden leg of the stereo rack. The rack sits on a hardwood floor and my speakers (KEF 104/2 floor standers) are close to the turntables like yours. I can jump up and down on the floor in front of the rack and there is no needle jump at all. You produced a very nice vid! I will check out your Lenco GL75 vid next.

I have one Ortofon 2M black in my RP8 and it is simply phenomenal

Could you tell me what converter you use bet. PC USB port and SU1 RCA (coaxial)? Thank you. Also, what specific LPS model (wattage?) you had on the desk?

Best DAC value ever.

Great video I'll give it a go. Where did you get the compact laminate board material from?

I remember years ago(early 1980s) listening to a Rega 3 at a dealer that butchered the table. He put sorbothane under the feet, replaced the mat with a sorbothane mat, finally putting the Rega on one of those VPI springy isolation platforms made back then. I remember asking one of the sales consultants about it; the owner thought the simple design of the Rega could use some help. So one step at a time, we removed a change(for the better?) made to it. First I took it off the VPI jungle Gym and it made a large change for the better as it used to hold on to vibrations rather than quickly pass through it. Then the mat replaced with the felt original. That made for a livelier sound opposed to the dulling created by the S-mat, and removing the hockey pucks finally improved the ability of the Rega to let vibrations pass quicker through the turntable, improved dynamics. The salesman agreed. My neighbor owns the same basic VPI that you own though it's sometimes hard to say exact as VPI can make so many changes to a product within a year. It sits on one of those Ikea KALLAX shelf units that every other UA-camr seems to use, filled with all his equipment LPs, and other sundries. He tried some of the silly homebrew stuff blathered about on the internet like the cutting boards also from Ikea that people claim are effective. He tried two butcher block boards separated with tennis balls, racquet balls, racquet balls cut in half, large steel bearings from the army/ science surplus store plus some of the more reasonably priced isolation devices from the Audio broker store he purchased the VPI from(we live only a mile away). None of it deals well with the core problem; the mass of the cabinet it sits on. The sound would change but not for the better which is the issue with a lot of these isolation devices. Many audiophiles hear a change and call it an improvement plus most devices are designed by quacks. You have to meet these people and listen to them speak non-sensical physics. Here's one tip; when the designer promoter, huckster of one of these products goes into subjects like quantum effects or buckminsterfullerene's(bucky balls), run away, run away. Or even better, ask them, did they have access to a particle accelerator where they ran tests? I actually asked that question once to one of these pseudo scientists. So, what worked? I loaned him a Sound Organisation platform which is basically the top portion of the Linn LP12 rack they designed and it improved most areas of sonics like air dynamics, clarity, the ability to hear a clearer image. Not a lot in some of these aspects but it was there. My neighbor kept it for months until I loaned him the LP12 stand and got the VPI off the furniture. That was a revelation for him, like almost immediately. Today he owns a Target Wall Shelf attached to the exposed brick wall behind the Kallax plus has a metal frame with legs under the Kallax. Adding mass and elastic stuff generally does not improve things. Mass lowers the resonant frequency, making it more difficult for the turntable to deal with, causing more harm by having to deal with frequencies that hang around longer, not easily filtered out, distorting, disrupting the music it's attempting to extract from the LP. The same goes with the rest of your components. And of course adding a bunch of weight to a situation might be the only route in some severe/extreme situations. But that is a whole other discussion. So just disregard everything I said.

What Rotel cd player are you using.Looks like a rcd 965?

I have had this DAC for a bit, I was going to send it back to Amazon, but it is so inexpensive I kept it. The sound over my previous gear was rather veiled and congested sounding. Well, I broke it out to experiment with my new ToneWinner AD-2PRO+ integrated and was quite honestly blown away at the sound quality this was producing. It reminded me quite a bit of my Denafrips Ares II. It was not as good as the one in the integrated, but it was darn close. I also have a PS Audio and Bel Canto DAC here, and again this little SU-1 is very impressive with the right gear. Gear that is not so warm sounding, and I cannot even remember what I had in here... I go through a bit of gear.