Meridian Audio First With Dolby Pro Logic IIx

15-Sep-03

Meridian Audio Limited has announced the availability of Dolby Laboratories' latest surround technology, Pro Logic IIx, in its new G68, flagship 861, and the 568.2 surround processors.The G68 is part of the new G Series range of players, processors, amps, and controllers recently announced by Meridian. G Series products will be shipping by October. The top-of-the-line 861 and the 568.2 processors can be upgraded to include Dolby Pro Logic IIx by means of a firmware upgrade, available for download free of charge and installed via the product's serial port. ""Meridian has earned an enviable degree of long-term customer loyalty,"" says Meridian Chairman and co-founder Bob Stuart. ""Indeed, we consider this to be one of our most valuable assets. As a result, we not only incorporate the latest technology in our products, as in the case of the new G68; we also make it our policy to offer ongoing software and firmware updates to enable existing customers to benefit from new developments. Dolby Pro Logic IIx offers significant additional performance benefits to users with multiple surround speakers,"" he concluded.Dolby's new Pro Logic IIx takes advantage of multiple amplifiers and loudspeakers in a 6.1 or 7.1 system, decoding and expanding stereo and 5.1 content for replay via systems with side and rear speakers in addition to the usual front three and pair of surrounds, without requiring specially encoded content.Meridian's implementation of Pro Logic IIx has been carried out with full 48-bit precision. Meridian's Dolby Pro Logic IIx Music, Movie, and THX modes replace existing implementations of their Pro Logic II equivalents.Pro Logic IIx also offers new capabilities for multichannel input from PCM, DTSÆ, AC-3ô, or MPEG sources. Meridian will offer 5.1 upscaled to 7.1 in which all four surround channel signals are different. In the case of movies, EX is renamed Pro Logic IIx EX, with a menu to choose between Surround EX and Pro Logic IIx (7.1). Meridian systems fully support 0, 2, or 4 surround speakers at present.For more information, visit www.meridian-audio.com.

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