Meridian Explorer

Posted by: Skip on 27 February 2013

I am not trying to establish a counter-Naim fan club. But this seems like an interesting product and worth a try at the price. I ordered one to try today. I am not ready to revamp my CDS2+ 555PS setup to go toward streaming and this might be a workable device to give me a cheap streaming solution. Have any of you heard it? How does it sound with Naim? What cables are you using?

I would much prefer a comparable Naim product with an iSupply ps upgrade, but we are where we are, and I don't have another shelf for a DAC right now.

My other cheap DAC solution is a Halide DAC HD. It is more than adequate, but I could not ignore the Meridian.

Posted on: 28 February 2013 by rhr

Put an order in last week. Hopefully it will turn up soon. But my local dealer said that Meridian were shipping them out as fast as they could make them.

I've been looking for a cheap portable DAC/headphone amp for a while, and it seems to tick all the boxes. It also supports 192k sample rates which a lot of its similarly priced competitors don't.

I'm also looking forward to trying it as just a DAC through my Headline/iSupply