Okay,
so today everything arrived and, of course, I used the whole evening to set everything up, which I sadly didn't really achieve. It wasn't a good time, haha.
But most of my problems were due to my dumbness, not reading the manuals, so that's on me.
I simply began with placing the speakers and connecting most of the cables. I connected the Coaxial to XLR AES/EBU cable at first into my headphone amp (FiiO K3), so I could do the LINDY stuff later. Then I connected all the network cables with the SAM system and my windows' laptop. In the GLM software, I struggled a bit with setting up the speakers. I wondered why only one speaker was shown and didn't understand that I just had to drag that one to the right position and then the other one would appear.
So after that I wanted to immediately run the autoCal setup, but I got the following error (one of the few things I couldn't solve yet):
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After plugging the GLM-Kit into a different USB-Port, I could start the autoCal calibration, but it couldn't finish because of some problems. I tried the same later on my Mac mini, but I got the same error on there, plugging into a different USB-Port didn't do anything on the Mac.
I thought I just do the autoCal later and try playing some music, but that didn't really work too. Not only that, but I tried the FiiO K3 coax out and the coax out from my CD-Player, but I couldn't get any music out of these speakers. That's the part where my dumbness was real big, because, of course, really early in the user manual is described how to get the digital input's of the speakers to work. It took me way longer when I like to admit having found out about that.
After I got it working on the FiiO K3, I of course thought it would immediately work on my CD-Player too, how foolish of me. Of course, my CD-Player has settings which I have long forgotten, and I needed to change multiple settings to get the digital outputs to work. I had some sort of "better audio quality" mode on, which turned the digital outputs off.
The TV was the easiest, I just put the Optical cable into the optical to coaxial converter and it just worked. The LINDY switch also worked immediately then, but with one small annoyance. When I did go CD-Player - coax optical converter - Genelec, the Genelec LEDs were green, like they should be, but going CD-Player - optical switch - coax optical converter, the Genelec's LEDs are blinking red/orange something which indicates that the signal isn't good or something, didn't read much into that yet. Sound cam through, so maybe I'll just live with that. I didn't have that problem with my TV, with that the LEDs were always green.
I also couldn't get the remote connected yet, but I guess that is because I didn't remove the red plastic thingy yet, and I only tried twice, so that shouldn't be a problem.
So yeah, that's my current state. The worst thing is of course that the mic doesn't seem to work properly. I definitely try some more tomorrow and maybe even listen to some actual amount of music (can you believe it). I only got to listen to half of Avaritia by Deadmau5 today, which was great, obviously.
I hope this post wasn't too much, but I guess it makes me feel a bit better, and I'm absolutely excited about what's to come.
If you have any tips for me, keep em coming.