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Hi Jeje,

Yes you could run an Oppo into the 271, and then control the DSP speakers with an MSR.

Rick

Hi Rick,

I'm not familiar with the Oppo, but I presume that you have to set the individual channel levels from a multi channel output on the Oppo.

Brian

I presume you'd need an HD621 in between?

Or perhaps one of these: Meridian UHD722 HDMI Processor 4K Switch

~M~

Is there any news on how the speakers are turned on if you use the 271?

Does it has an auto trigger on the analogue inputs? Or do you have to turn on the speakers manualy?

Would be nice not the need the MSR to turn them on.

And does the 271 send out 24/96 to the speakers from the analogue input?

For now I have setup a 562 as a/d converter between the 861 and the DSP speakers to test the setup. Now it sends 44k to the speakers. It would be nice if the 271 would bring more then 44k

Your 861 should send 88.2k with CD's.

I didn't try that. I was watching a movie to test it.

I made this setup to test how the 271 would work. I have only 2 speakers at the moment and am thinking of bying a 271 but want to know what the advantage is to the 562 in my case.

I could use the money for the purchase of a set DSP3300 and build surround sound in my home.

Then I stack a 2nd 562 for A/D conversion for the rear channels.

In that way I could buy another brand of processor.

When I looked at the drawing for the use of the 271 I saw that in all cases a 218 is connected to the processor instead of the 271 SpeakerLink input. Can't figure that one out either.

96/24 A/D and D/A is hit and (mostly/always?) miss through a 562. Officially its max 48k only.

See 562v3

Just wondering if you could feed an 861 SpeakerLink output to the 271 via an adapter and thus use it for what we do now and also feed another processor in for the Atmos.

Hi Peter,

No I don't think the 271 will offer any switching between two processors.

That setup could be achieved though I'm sure...

I'd look to leave the 861 setup as is, through the SpeakerLink inputs on the DSP for the very best performance.

Then use an Atmos processor that has digital outputs to the Coaxial digital inputs on the DSP speakers.

(Or a surround processor with Analogue outputs via a 271, and then SpeakerLink to coaxial adaptors)

Rick

Looks like the cheaper Trinnov processor (Altitude 16) will be offering digital outputs over dual network audio RJ-45s. Protocol as yet unclear. I wonder if the 271 can, or can be adapted to use these?