Device Discovery Partner Spotlight

The Device Discovery Spotlight Series salutes our partner manufacturers who are taking the initiative to write their own modules to make their products Device Discovery-enabled that much sooner.

This month, we invite you to learn more about Meridian's support of Device Discovery.

Meridian G95
CD/DVD Surround Receiver System

Meridian designs, engineers and manufactures state-of-the-art audio and video home entertainment systems, including the following popular product lines:

• 800 Reference Series products
• G Series, C Series products
• DSP Active Loudspeakers and
• Custom Install Loudspeakers, Video Projectors, and Video Processors

Most recently, Meridian partnered with AMX to develop a Device Discovery module for their G95 Surround Receiver, featured below. Meridian plans to have additional modules available for all of their Surround Processors and DVD Players.

Below is a brief introduction to the G95. For more information please visit Meridian at: http://www.meridian-audio.com

Meridian’s G95 CD/DVD Surround Receiver System features Device Discovery, which allows the AMX NetLinx Controller to recognize the G95 as soon as it connected to the control system, speeding up installation time for the integrator.

The G95 is the most powerful and versatile member of the company’s award-winning G Series family. Its design was based on extensive research into exactly what customers required, and therefore includes desired features while specifically omitting those regarded as superfluous or no longer necessary in the modern consumer electronics environment.

The G95 is a full 5.1 DVD Surround Receiver with both stereo and surround modes, a robust DVD drive and five gutsy built-in 100W per channel power amplifiers. In addition to five pairs of heavy-duty gold-plated power output terminals, a complete set of six analogue line-level outputs is included to drive external power amplifiers and speakers, and an active subwoofer such as the Meridian SW1600 or SW5500. It can decode Dolby Digital, DTS, MPEG, and MP3 data streams and also includes Trifield high-resolution stereo processing.

The G95 includes comprehensive preamplifier functionality with multiple analogue and digital inputs including two coax digital inputs, two optical digital inputs, and three analogue input pairs. A high-quality FM/AM tuner is also included.

The G95 employs a triple buffering system to minimize jitter, maximizing transparency, sound stage precision and stability. The result of this approach is that the player delivers ultra-low jitter, with sound and picture quality second only to that of Meridian’s 800 Reference DVD/CD Player.

The player employs Flash ROM memory for the operating system, so software updates can be downloaded and installed via the rear panel serial port, which is also used for control and configuration of the unit.

The G95 includes upsampling in stereo mode, which allows digital filters to be placed far beyond the range of human hearing, as well as offering other audible benefits right across the audio band, including improved transient response. All processing is at 48-bit precision. To drive the power amplifier modules and the six-channel analogue line-level outputs, signals are upsampled to 24-bit, 176.4/192kHz for digital to analogue conversion, at 24-bit word length.

Several presets are provided to allow you to choose the type of surround processing used for different sources. For 5.1 audio formats a Discrete or Cinema DSP preset is selected automatically, depending on whether the source is music or a movie. For two-channel audio formats the DSP preset can be switched between Trifield, Stereo, or PLII.

The G95 includes a unique high-resolution video processor/scaler delivering the most advanced, high-quality video available today. The processor can simultaneously provide composite, S-video, component video, and full 1080p HD on an HDMI output. The processor has two composite, three S-video, and 1 component video inputs, and converts between the formats, or to the HDMI standard, to provide a single video output for all the video sources in your system.