Hi all,

I finally took delivery of my 568, 562V.2 and 596 last Thursday and now find myself in configuration hell. Hopefully some of you will be able to lead me to Meridian nirvana.

I'm currently not using the 562 (see below) and am just trying to get the 568/596 setup, things that have me confused:

1) I assume that the 596 is always considered "DVD" regardless of playing a movie or CD. However, the 568 setup gui lists this as "3C" under the comms settings, but the 596 osd menu shows it as "1C", which I think is a CD setting. Which is correct?

2) With the comms cables hooked up between th e 568/596, things seems mostly operational, except that the arrow keys of the remote do not control the cursor of a DVD movie's menu. Rather, the arrow keys are changing the DSP setting of the 568. As such, I cannot navigate a DVD's menu. I'm sure this was working at one point, so I don't know what I've done to muck it up.

3) The 568 can upsample the digital data from the 596 when playing CD's, right? I only ever seem to see 44k on the 568 display. I setup the 596 for MHR on, 96kHz enable and tried both bitstream and pcm. The 568 is setup to turn on HS Out for the DSP mode I'm in, stereo. Is there something I'm missing here?

4) When using the GUI config program, is it customary to have a unique "msf" file for each piece of equipment being configured? Or can one msf file contain the settings for both the 568 and 562V.2?

Which leads me into my 562 woes. When I first started working on configuring the 562V.2, things were working just fine, but quickly detoriated. Questions regarding the 562 are:

5) After I got through initial configurations and had the 568, 562 and 596 all daisy-chained with comms cables, the 568 and 562 responded correctly to the remote, but the 596 wouldn't respond to anything, including power-on or power-off. If I disconnected the comms cable from the 562, the 596 would respond. Note I have done the remote "clear" for selecting a controller numerous times. What setting could I have wrong to cause what appears to be a device/controller conflict on the comms bus?

6) I think in a state of confusion, I may have done a "store settings" to the 562 when I had a 568 msf file open, because at one point the gui would report trying to convert 568 settings when fetching the config from the 562. I'm now at the point that the 562 doesn't even talk to the config gui. I know the serial port is ok, becuase I can communicate with the 568, but when connected to the 562, the gui reports that it doesn't find anything on the com port. Have I completely munged the code in the 562?

If so, I assume this is going to mean a trip back to Meridian for the 562. Although, I think it'll need to go back anyway, due to a flaky connection on one of the analog output ports.

Thanks in advance to any help you can offer.

Regards,

Dan W.




[This message has been edited by Lerxst (edited 03-04-2001).]