Hi all,

Thanks for the comments and suggestions.

SAB: the type reset of the 562 took care of the majority of my issues. Thanks.

Simon: Yes, yes, I know, RTFM, I'm chastising myself harder than any of you ever will.. I was pretty frustrated at myself with the issues I was having and my patience/reading comprehension had run out. Now that I have regained some composure and things are pretty much back to working, I'll more calmly do a detailed reread of the manuals.

Regarding the function-arrow keys going to the 596, I thought I had tried that, but will double check again when I get home this evening. Thanks for the pointer.

As for the "1c" setting in the 596, all I can say is, Doh! I keep forgetting that the 596 can act as a controller! Even though I was doing the "clear" function to setup the 568 as controller and 562/596 as non-controllers, it didn't sink into me what the "source" setting of the 596 was telling me. Thanks.

Ronnie: Ah ha. I thought the display should change when upsampling, but I'd forgotten the upper/lower-case thing in my panic/confusion/frustration. Thanks.


Despite all of the troubles I've been having, I am most enjoying the new Meridian gear! I'm still waiting on the 558 to arrive, so am still using my B&K amp, but it sounds wonderful! The picture out of the 596, feeding my Pioneer 510 via component, looks stellar. Both CD's and DVD's sound incredible, lots of detail and nuance's that weren't ever resolved by my B&K AVP-1030 pre/pro.

I feel I may be approaching the gates to Meridian nirvana! [Linked Image from softronix.com]

Thanks everyone,

Dan W.