I listened to the £1900 Meridian Ellipse wireless speaker – and you should too

I’ll be honest with you, I went into the Meridian demo room at High End Munich expecting to kick back and enjoy the DSP9. Yes, they launched at the show last year, but there’s never a bad time to sit down and hear a pair of trademark Meridian speakers. But instead, I was greeted by something that’s not just much smaller, but also much shinier: the brand-new Meridian Ellipse wireless speaker.

This is the company’s first wireless speaker system and promises to utilise the company’s Digital Signal Processing technology to deliver a satisfyingly hi-fi sound – befitting of a high-end audio show – from a relatively tiny package. And it’s fair to say, based on the demonstration I enjoyed, it delivers. 

When you’re at a trade show full of speakers and systems worth 100s of thousands of pounds, it’s almost unnerving to be sat back ready to listen to a wireless speaker. This is the sort of product that, regardless of the brand name, plenty of people wandering around this show wouldn’t dream of bringing into their homes. Proper hi-fi? No chance. But for the rest of us, enlightened by what’s now possible, why not see what an esteemed audio company, known for delivering class-leading audio processing, can deliver from a diminutive cabinet?