Placeholder / pre-empting the first deliveries of the 218....
[Apologies if you thought shipping had started !]

Please list / assist / suggest - with instructions for getting the 218 up-and-running ASAP - and any hints / tips / tricks associated with its installation & use.

I will be using mine purely to enable MQA through my 861 / DSP8000 system with Roon.

My speakers are currently connected using "home run" topology, so I assume I connect one cable from the 861 SpeakerLink Master / Out to the 218 SpeakerLink in, the 218 SpeakerLink Out to the DSP8000 Master speaker, and the DSP8000 SpeakerLink Master Out to the other DSP8000 speaker.

And, of course, I connect the 218 LAN input to my network and therefore Roon, which would then hopefully be identified (by Roon) as an Endpoint.

Open question for me is the MSR+ and 861 : would anything need to be changed in their setup to enable / ensure switching between the Roon input & all the others that are currently programmed?

Volume is then controlled by ... Roon... and the MSR+ ... through the speakers? Do I have to ensure that one of the DSP's is the system Controller and not the 861? Or...?

Trinnov Altitude CI-12; Meridian 861v8 + ID41 + UHD722v2 + 271, 2*SE-update DSP8.2Ks, SE-update DSP7200HC, 4*DSP3200, 4*DSP33, 218, 251
JVC DLA-NZ8; Panasonic TX-P60ZT60E; Lumagen Radiance Pro 5348
Roon [13i7 Win.11 NUC]; SKY Q; Oppo UDP-203EU; AppleTV / Fire Cube / Roku / NVidia