Meridian Audio

Meridian Audio
IndustryAudio/Visual Consumer electronics
Founded1977 (1977)
FounderBob Stuart, Allen Boothroyd
HeadquartersHuntingdon, England
ProductsLoudspeakers, home theatre equipment
WebsiteOfficial website

Meridian Audio is a consumer audio and home theatre equipment manufacturer based in the United Kingdom. Bob Stuart and Allen Boothroyd founded the company in 1977 under the name Boothroyd-Stuart. In 1985 the company released a CD player under the brand name, Meridian. The company also created the lossless compression format Meridian Lossless Packing (used by DVD-Audio) in 1998 and the lossy Master Quality Authenticated (MQA) format in 2014.