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The four D600 speakers and the pair of Phantom Gold speakers have optical inputs. I have been unable to control or use the D600 as front and rear speakers and have failed to get a wiring diagram for the K cable to link the front to rear speakers. One of the faults on a slave D600 is no display. So I can not configure it anymore.

I control the balance from the application with the Terratec sound card to each analogue speaker input. The Meridian K cable would carry the rear channel left and right if it worked. I also have no idea if the optical output carries 5+1 sound as with all the instruction manuals (Terratec, Meridian and Devialet) only stereo music streaming is mentioned.

Devialet do include a statement that the Phantom speakers can be set up as surround sound. I don't have five to test. When asked, support suggested that the only way to get them to work as a surround sound system was to use 5 analogue to digital converts which sees a digital USB converted to analogue and then separately converted back to a digital output. Yes that would work. It would also work with a surround pre-amp G68 but the G68 also only mentions stereo streaming with it's USB input. A new app (Spark. for the Phantoms) was promised for the end of the year to address surround sound and more visiblity on connections being used in September 2019 but the download is 4 years old with bug fixes not supplied.

I have used UPnP but the sync to the video and stereo to the Phantom Gold speakers is difficult to control. The delay is possibly down to wi-fi being used and not Ethernet with the app not telling you what is being selected. There are no issues with audio only. Streaming from the computer has limits but easy to work around. Video and surround sound is the problem.