Hi

Thanks ever so much for your feedback. Your comments have enabled me to prove that the DAC's are in fact good, but I'm now even more confused.

To be fair I had tried my old decommissioned 500 CD transport connected directly to one of the rear speakers a couple of days ago but I think the CD player is tired and although it read the number of tracks on the CD's it errored when I tried to play them.

Your comments today made me persevere and I dug out my old decommissioned 586 DVD transport. which fortunately is still working. I typed the Left Rear 5000 to 1 and connected directly to the 586. When I first tested it (using the TV source, configured for input D1) nothing. I then switched to the CD source and bingo! Switching back to the TV source then also worked – freaky but it works!

I repeated with the Right Rear 5000 and that worked also.

I've now reconnected to the G68, both speakers are currently typed to 1. I'm not sure if this is correct, perhaps you can advise. It's been a long time since I originally configured this system.

Anyhow, here is the situation now, and it's very odd, which leads me to suspect that it may indeed be a speaker configuration issue.

1) Meridian Config software speaker test – All 7.1 speaker's output white noise and work as expected.

2) G68 Sine wave test – Rears do not output the tone, all other speakers do.

3) I switched the digital outputs on the G68 rears for front and repeated the G68 Sine wave test. The fronts/main (now connected to the G68 rear digital out) output the tone, but the rears (now connected to the front/main digital output) don't.

I think that this proves that all speakers and the G68 outputs are good, so help with the correct configuration settings for the rears would be appreciated.

Should they be type 1, 5 or 6?

Anything else I should be watching out for?

Thanks
Steve