[2][3] Based in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, Meridian Audio was founded by John Robert (Bob) Stuart and Allen Boothroyd in 1977.

[6] The company opened its first shop in Bangkok, Thailand in November 2009, followed by three more retail outlets in Seoul, Santiago and Mexico and a U.K. branch in Oxford.

Meridian provided engineering support for the range of soundbars, speakers, earphones and smartphones and advised on matters such as component choice.

[11] In 2019, British Airways became a Meridian customer; a set of in-flight headphones was developed that reduce resonance, distortion and reflection.

The company have since signed distribution agreements with Barco Residential, Display Technologies, Complete Acoustic Treatment System, Waterfall Audio and Trinnov.

[18] Having acknowledged that they lacked the experience or manufacturing facilities to create a CD player from scratch,[19] Boothroyd-Stuart turned to Philips, who allowed small companies to purchase their CD-101 decks and design their own cases and interfaces.

They also installed a new audio board with enlarged grounding and shielding capabilities, aluminum electrolytic output coupling capacitors and a 3-pole analog filter section.

[19] After Stuart's departure to MQA ltd, chief technical officer, Richard Hollinshead led Meridian's design team that created the digital audio converter (DAC).