You brought up something I thought about but didn't put in my list. The RJ45 for the center master speaker needs to be in the bottom (master) port of the 3/4 stack. Kind of counter intuitive from a ethernet switch way of thinking. Both ports carry the same audio signal. Speaker configuration tells the speaker which of the two channels each speaker responds to.

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