Meridian Range Rover Evoque Audio System Quick Manual

Meridian – the Sound of
Range Rover Evoque
Meridian and Range Rover both share a
British heritage. They also share a common
desire to push the boundaries of experience,
and a common ability to develop technology
to conquer new challenges.
The driving experience is changing. Today,
we regularly spend more time listening
to music in the car than we do at home.
So when Range Rover sought to create a
truly class-leading listening experience for
their customers setting new standards in
automobile entertainment, they came to
Meridian.
Conventional consumer audio systems,
whether in-home or in-car, have followed
a traditional pattern in which the power
amplifiers supply a full-range audio signal to
the loudspeakers, where a passive crossover
divides the signal into frequency bands to
be supplied to woofer and tweeter. This
approach requires a number of significant
compromises in the design of the system,
including the need for excessively large
power amplifiers to overcome the lower
efficiency of passive systems, and the
need for the passive crossover to employ
components chosen for their power-handling
capacity rather than their audio quality.
Thirty years ago, Meridian developed some
of the first active loudspeakers available,
going on to use digital signal processing
(DSP) to create crossovers that would
be impossible – or prohibitively complex
or expensive – to realise in the analogue
domain, and becoming the first consumer
audio manufacturer to do so.
Meridian DSP-based digital active
loudspeakers use a fully-digital crossover
followed by digital to analogue converters
(DACs) to drive individual amplifiers which
power the loudspeaker drivers directly,
maximising efficiency and allowing a level
of performance usually associated with
loudspeakers at least four times the size.
The Systems
Meridian and Range Rover have designed
two powerful and unique in-car audio
systems for Evoque.
The Meridian Sound System is a 380-
watt, 12-channel stereophonic system
featuring 11 loudspeakers including a special
dual-channel subwoofer.
The Meridian Surround Sound System
is a full 15-channel stereo/surround
system running 825 watts and driving 17
loudspeakers mounted around the vehicle
Range Rover Evoque
Meridian in-car audio
System Highlights
Ground-breaking digital in-car
entertainment system, custom-
designed for Evoque
12-channel, 11-speaker stereo
Meridian Sound System and
15-channel, 17-speaker Meridian
Surround Sound System available
Digital Active loudspeaker system
featuring Meridian DSP Loudspeaker
technology
High sound output level with minimal
distortion
Full frequency range with deep bass
extension
Advanced DSP-based Dynamic
Volume Control automatically
compensates for ambient noise levels
Exceptionally high efficiency, power-
to-weight ratio and compact size
Meridian Cabin Correction uses fine-
tuned DSP to match vehicle interior
acoustic space
Meridian Audio Limited
www.meridian-audio.com