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01-06-2010, 07:09 AM
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It's been about a year since Meridian <a href="http://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/08/meridian-picks-up-sooloos-and-isnt-telling-anything-more/">picked up</a> Sooloos, and the fruits of the acquisition are coming at you, whole-home style. The new ID40 Sooloos Card can be dropped into select Meridian 800-series components to open up network audio streaming and play queue control. The new 808.3 Signature Reference CD player gets an ID40 bundled, and it's an option on the 861 Reference Digital Surround Controller (now in its sixth version and ready to gobble up 8-channels of audio from a HD621 HDMI Audio Processor). Just in case a<strike> $9,900</strike> $5,000 <a href="http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/16/meridiansooloos-produce-first-jointly-developed-touchpanel-cont/">Control 10</a> qualifies as a handy remote to you, there's also an iPhone / iPod touch app as well. Full details in the press releases, but those with mortal budgets might feel more at home with something like <a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/sonos">Sonos</a> or <a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/squeezebox/">Logitech</a>.<br />
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<strong>EDIT:</strong> The $9,900 Control 10 package includes an Ensemble server unit.<p><a href="http://hd.engadget.com/2010/01/04/meridian-fires-up-its-ces-party-with-sooloos-whole-home-audio/" rel="bookmark">Continue reading <em>Meridian fires up its CES party with Sooloos whole-home audio</em></a></p><p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"><a href="http://hd.engadget.com/2010/01/04/meridian-fires-up-its-ces-party-with-sooloos-whole-home-audio/">Meridian fires up its CES party with Sooloos whole-home audio</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://hd.engadget.com">Engadget HD</a> on Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:02:00 EST. Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.</p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://hd.engadget.com/2010/01/04/meridian-fires-up-its-ces-party-with-sooloos-whole-home-audio/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>*|*<a href="http://hd.engadget.com/forward/19301320/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>*|*<a href="http://hd.engadget.com/2010/01/04/meridian-fires-up-its-ces-party-with-sooloos-whole-home-audio/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>
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It's been about a year since Meridian <a href="http://hd.engadget.com/2008/12/08/meridian-picks-up-sooloos-and-isnt-telling-anything-more/">picked up</a> Sooloos, and the fruits of the acquisition are coming at you, whole-home style. The new ID40 Sooloos Card can be dropped into select Meridian 800-series components to open up network audio streaming and play queue control. The new 808.3 Signature Reference CD player gets an ID40 bundled, and it's an option on the 861 Reference Digital Surround Controller (now in its sixth version and ready to gobble up 8-channels of audio from a HD621 HDMI Audio Processor). Just in case a<strike> $9,900</strike> $5,000 <a href="http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/16/meridiansooloos-produce-first-jointly-developed-touchpanel-cont/">Control 10</a> qualifies as a handy remote to you, there's also an iPhone / iPod touch app as well. Full details in the press releases, but those with mortal budgets might feel more at home with something like <a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/sonos">Sonos</a> or <a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/squeezebox/">Logitech</a>.<br />
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<strong>EDIT:</strong> The $9,900 Control 10 package includes an Ensemble server unit.<p><a href="http://hd.engadget.com/2010/01/04/meridian-fires-up-its-ces-party-with-sooloos-whole-home-audio/" rel="bookmark">Continue reading <em>Meridian fires up its CES party with Sooloos whole-home audio</em></a></p><p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"><a href="http://hd.engadget.com/2010/01/04/meridian-fires-up-its-ces-party-with-sooloos-whole-home-audio/">Meridian fires up its CES party with Sooloos whole-home audio</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://hd.engadget.com">Engadget HD</a> on Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:02:00 EST. Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.</p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://hd.engadget.com/2010/01/04/meridian-fires-up-its-ces-party-with-sooloos-whole-home-audio/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>*|*<a href="http://hd.engadget.com/forward/19301320/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>*|*<a href="http://hd.engadget.com/2010/01/04/meridian-fires-up-its-ces-party-with-sooloos-whole-home-audio/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>
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