The most flexible device from trivum, the SC344m, supports 4 zones with 4 stereo speaker outputs and 4 stereo cinch line outputs.

Normally you connect 2 loudspeakers per zone, one for left and one for right.

But what if there is only 1 loudspeaker in a room, e.g. in a small guest toilet? Then you only want to connect one for this zone and operate it in mono mode.

Or what if the kitchen and living room are one open, connected area with a total of 4 speakers? Then you might want just one zone instead of two large zones, "living/dining", at which all 4 loudspeakers hang.

Or you want to insert subwoofers and flat-panel speakers to compensate for differences in volume, and adapt different speaker types to the room via DSP.

All this is possible with trivum, with output mapping.

In the web configuration, which you can open with any web browser, you will quickly find the item for configuring the outputs in the Devices area.

You can e.g. reassign an entire stereo output to another zone, or convert a stereo output into 2 mono outputs, and then in turn assign them to desired zones, or leave them unused.

Finally, you can define different DSP settings for each output.

Playing the same music on more than 2 speakers can also be achieved with grouping.

But if it is clear from the outset that a speaker assignment is only ever used in one way, operation is simplified through a fixed set-up. Grouping is then no longer necessary.

No matter how you remap speaker and line outputs, a single trivum device only contains a maximum of 4 zones, with the associated sources (streamer, tuner, etc.) for these zones.

For more than 4 zones, several trivum devices are combined in a master/slave system.