Moving into a new house where I'll actually be able to use all my stored Meridian gear, so I am looking to have a three room system:

  • Living room: G68/DSP5200 x2/DSP5000HC/DSP33 x2
  • Study: G68/DSP33 x3
  • Bedroom:561/M33 x3


The G68 manual talks about a "Meridian Three Room Plus guide" at Meridian's site, and I cannot find it there at all. Does anyone have a copy? I'd basically like to be able to access the music streamer etc in the living room from the other rooms when it's selected there, do a "party mode" where every room is playing all the same, etc.

The last time I set something like this up was a long while ago, back when it was called "Meridian Multi-room" rather than "Multi-zone" or "Three Room Plus", so any guidance or recommendations here would be really useful.

Some questions I'm still pondering:

  • Meridian.exe doesn't seem to have a way of designing the network for a multi-controller system - Will I just have entirely seperate configs for the two G68s? Any specific config required for their copy/tape/zone outputs?
  • Any benefits to using a spoke (study plugged into Z1 of living room, bedroom into Z2) vs. bus toplogy (living room Z1 -> study, study Z1 -> bedroom etc.)?
  • The old MConfig.exe will be needed for the 561, but will a 561 be happy in this network with two G-series things?
  • How should I be configurating Meridian Comms network numbers etc?


Everything I have is all still DIN rather than SpeakerLink (although I do use BNC comms between the DSP5200s when deployed as stereo). I have my own lash-up PCBs for converting all the Meridian Comms and coax S/P-DIF to RJ45 for the Cat6 structured cabling in the house.