Hi OP,

I have always found this to be a tricky process. Seems like every time we do this it can be fiddly.

I have always had the best luck with L/R as slave on 1/2 and C as master on 3/4 like yourself and Bruce described. 271 has Slave SL as top row and master as bottom row, is the C plugged into bottom row?

The other thing that definitely helps is power cycling the 271 and speakers. When making changes to speakerlink cabling or settings, it's important to power cycle all equipment to get it back in sync.

Also Bruce, we have spoken to M a few times Re volume control, they have always advised us to use volume control via 271, believe this is to avoid clipping, regardless whether system is trinnov or storm. Whenever we do a control system, this is obviously IP. In this case however, if OP wants to use Meridian remote, are you saying he can trigger into trinnov, thats pretty neat.

Also OP, changing trinnov to digital aes16 will have no effect if you are not using the rj45 cabling to do this (as you are using the db25).

Otherwise, you could try changing master (C) to 1/2 and move L/R to 3/4. Sometimes it can be as simple as that. But each time make sure you power cycle, I have always found this to help.

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