I was not expecting it to be this good. It sounds just like the meridian with a little more brightness. I actually like that difference. My dog ears guy looked at me and said IT's back, meaning the sound of the meridian is back. He could not believe it either. What was even better is that I set all the crossovers to 80 with small speakers and let it auto calibrate and this is the result. Excellent job. I am still amazed. I will stick with this until hdmi and dolby true hd becomes more widespread.