Hal-Dill

2 hours ago, cnicholson said:

This will work, but then you can only have one source (at a time) shared between the two matrixes (apart from the sources that you Y-out to both matrixes). 

This is what I was trying to explain. Thank you!

4 minutes ago, lippavisual said:

There is the Pulse Eight 16x32 and 32x32 Audio switches available on the dealer portal now.

You can't use controllers to pass matrix audio unless you want delay (from being digitized) going to the other matrix.  Frankly, that just wouldn't be a good outcome either.

How many inputs are you talking about?  The above switches should cover all, if not most, jobs.

Dante can be used, albeit from other manufacturers, but that would all depend on the design.  I come from the commercial AV world and I've been asking for Dante enabled products since its inception.

Good to know about the Pulse Eight switches. I'll mention those as a possibility for future jobs.

Thank you for confirming for me that the matrix -> controller -> matrix path was a bad idea. Appreciated!

At my company we end up with a lot of projects in large new-construction homes with more zones than a single matrix can handle.

We used to use the Triad 24x24, but it's been discontinued (why??) and now we use the AV Pro Edge 24x24 - but we still sometimes encounter homes where we need more zones. I come from live audio, where something like Dante could be used to chain matrices together - but I don't think something like that exists for residential, unless I am wrong. (I'd love to be wrong!!)

Our standard practice in such a case is to split everything going to an input to two matrices - but that's messy and convoluted. A field technician asked me today why we don't backfeed one matrix out into a Core5 input, and then use a separate Core5 output for the other matrix. That, to me, seemed like it would not work - but I wasn't really able to articulate why in a way that they understood so I'm open to being fully incorrect on this.

What is the recommended practice in the case of multiple matrices? Does anyone here have a 24 zone (or larger!!) matrix that they recommend? The AV Pro Edge 24x24 is limited in some ways.