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Hi there,

Newbie to MU - rediscovering my love of Meridian after a fair old while with just a foot in the door (500 CD and 563), along with a whole bunch of analogue stuff like 501, 504 and 551 left over from the mid-1990s.

I recently took the plunge in a big way with purchase of used DSP5500s, plus D5000C centre, plus 562V and 568v2. Now, comes the hard part - making them work.
So after lot of study, I reckon I worked out the scheme (DSP5000C as Master, M5 connected to 568 and then digital/comms daisy chained upwards via 562 to 500 and going the other way, using 511 Patch, through right speaker to left using S5 leads.

And... nothing.

Configuring the system via Clear on MSR elicits Con/Non Con responses from the 500 units but nothing at all from speakers which just remain on standby and won't wake up.

Tried so far: resetting all units with 30 secs plus power down, making 'bare bones' connection between 500 only and the two DSP5500s, M5 connections to 562 and 568 separately, making connection to just the DSP5000C. It's the same story each time.

For some reason, the speakers are not receiving the digital prompts they need.The only thing I can try is to check the pinouts on the M5 lead, from DIN 240 to DIN 180. Can't see what might have gone wrong with that,but better eliminate it from The Enquiry.
Do any of you more experienced folk have any thoughts or suggestions?

Well, it was none of that... just good old fashioned stupidity on my part. I thought SL and SR in the TYPE 0 menu meant 'Slave Left' / Slave Right'. Of course not... it means SURROUND Left and Right. Entirely different. Setting to just good ol L and R with slave dots got everything working. Then moved on to integrate the 562 and now everything singing beautifully in Trifield. Which sounds awesome.

Now moved on to get it installed in place (labelling cable terminations VERY carefully) and connect the rest of my equipment. Not quite sure if the 562V I bought has a phono module fitted or not but I wasn't planning to use it anyway. Plugging my MF VYNL into one of the line level analogue pairs (VCR2) instead. Am also not at all sure about the video side of things. I guess I can use one I/O optical to connect in the Samsung flat screen and maybe the other one, for laser disk, to connect the DVD player? Failing that, I'm going to be in the world of HDMI adapters. Might even be able to bring my old VCR back into service. Also, being an early model 562, there's no digital to analogue conversion built in, as I understand it, so I just might need to call on my trusty 563.

Anyway, Happy Days!

To save having to do it and then redo it, start with the 568 and TYPE the speakers to TYPE 6.
You can get into the other speaker settings (the config menu) by holding the number zero button on the MSR remote while turning on the rear panel switch.

Hi Nick

As mentioned by Carl, you need to set the Type of each speaker, Type 6 and then also set the postion, L/R/C or Rears etc along with being either a Slave or the Master, only 1 speaker can be the Master. This is done by using the remote (MSR or MSR+) and turning the speaker off and on using the rear power switch. Not easy I know as I have a pair of DSP5500 24 bit (and short arms!)

You then need to configure the 568.2/562v2 from the front panel, I believe from memory. I think you need to configure whether they are 24 or 18 bit speakers.

Hope this helps.

Cheers

Jon

Hi welcome to the forum,

Have you TYPEDed the DSP speakers? For a multichannel setup they should be TYPE 6.

Once reTYPED they will need to be re-configured (Master/Slave, Left, Right, Centre etc).

If you need user guides check Duncan's site, see link near top right of this forum.

Regards,
Carl

You are not alone. I did this as well

I have run into DSP5500 speakers that refuse to be daisy chained unless one of them was the master. If you have a 511 slave patch, try it with a home run to each 5500 speaker. This requires an additional S5 cable from the Center back to the slave patch.

Most parts come from donor speakers these days. The DSP board needs to be changed out and in some cases, it can become a little complicated. It is easiest to change the whole back panel from the donor speaker.