Originally Posted by Longitude0
Well, I am glad you feel so confident (Fiddler). In fact, the difficulty with two separate control strings or chains is caused by differing lengths in those chains and the possibility of electromagnetic reflections of the control signals in the two separate chains. Mostly it will work fine, but sometimes it may not. If you can daisy chain the lot you can avoid the ill luck of uncontrolled reflections.
Sorry No. The COMM communication can run all Daisy Chained or in a "Star" with the 511 Patch Panel.

There are no reflections to be concerned about or length issues becuase it's dog slow, like 4800 Baud. That's why you can run in a Star or Serial.

There is no communications happening unless you are changing sources or volume.

The fact that one speaker changes volume a micro second later than another doesn't matter and doesn't need to be in sync.

If it didn't work, then plugging in an HD621 or what ever you want in second port wouldn't work either. You can plug another component or another speaker chain.

All it does it broadcast, Volume Up, Volume Down, Off and Source (more or less) out both COMM outs. To what ever is hooked to it.

If you really wanted to be nit picky, running two Master Chains would be MORE robust than one longer serial chain or a Star through the 511 Patch Panel. A 511 Star configuration would be more subject to ringing/reflections than running two shorter independent serial chains. And two shorter chains would be more "in sync" than one long chain. But it doesn't matter at the speeds and type of data that goes over those wires.

Only time folks get messed up is when they have multiple controllers, poorly made cables, lose connections etc.

There is no coordination between anything using the old COMM's (new SpeakerLink is different, and two Masters probably would mess things up), it's a SLOW one way broadcast of informing what the Preamp did. It's purposely slow so the cabling is very flexible and cheap.

- Fiddler (IMHO)

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