Meridian 861 & 800 serial control
jjames
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Anyone ever experience the things locking up often (multiple times daily)? The protocol is pretty darn easy, so I can't see myself doing anything wrong with that (but it is possible.)
We just haven't had any experience with the Meridian pieces and although I'm impressed with the quality of sound, I'm very bummed over the protocol AND it locking up so much. Ideas?
We just haven't had any experience with the Meridian pieces and although I'm impressed with the quality of sound, I'm very bummed over the protocol AND it locking up so much. Ideas?
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Jeff
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The Meridian sound is AMAZING. If you ever have a chance, I HIGHLY recommend listening to the DSP8000s
We're not Meridian dealers so this will probably be the one and only I get to deal with (was the client's request.) I do have to agree, they do sound amazing . . . and it wasn't even calibrated yet.
Are you guys Meridian dealers?
Because the speakers are digital, you don't need a big speaker wire to deliver the signal. We were able to run the wires behind the molding and only had to deal with plugging in the speakers at their location (which worked out well because there was an outlet almost directly behind each speaker location).
Jeff
Meridian control has been very solid for me, with one caveat: if nothing is connected to the serial port when they are turned on, they deactivate the port. So, every time you plug something in, you have to power cycle it ... including connecting your PC to load a program, and re-connecting the AMX afterward. The flip side of that is if it power cycles for some other reason, if your AMX controller is not active (say there was a power failure, and the Meridian powered up first), it may not resume communications without a reset.
I should mention I've got serial connected to both pieces . . . I'm going to undo the DVD control and just use maintain through the receiver / processor per some advice I've gotten.