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If you are playing stereo music and have some kind of "five channel stereo" mode on your receiver this should work nicely. Very much like Scotty's suggestion actually.

I can't even believe the bad luck. Thanks Mylan for inspiring me to finally set my stuff up again. Revisiting my broken whole house audio. Bad luck abounds. First I have the problem with my reciever being in an interference zone. Very difficult to find, but once I did, I had another problem once...

The set up Scotty described is very simple and I would do it if I had an old 5.1 receiver with 5.1 input. You'll need Y-connectors to split a stereo signal to L/R FRONT and L/R REAR for your receiver. Set your receiver to 5.1 channel in and you're good to go. When I was running 7.1 I never...

I found and fixed one problem. Some kind of electromagnetic interference. After more toubleshooting I found that if I hooked up my speakers to my Integra home theater receiver they sounded sweet and clean. (One trips the protection if I crank it up, the other does not. More information on...

a bunch of speculation and troubleshooting was here.

Whoah. Forget the stuff that was in these posts before.

I'm sorry, I'm a bit confused. So Mylan, is the 3806 running surround sound anywhere? If you're using it only to drive stereo speakers in multiple locations, Scotty's 5.1-in - two sets of stereo amps out solution will work well for you. But if you're only running stereo you'd be better off...

Scotty you are a genius. I love the solution you describe in the first paragraph. What a clever way to set up two isolated stereo pairs out of a surround receiver!!!!!!!! I've taken note for the future. The second paragraph sounds spot-on to me also. I got my new more robust volume controls...

I will tell you this. I went with a central older receiver with impedence matching volume controls for my in-ceiling speakers. I hope the volume controls were my only problem. When things were working it was a great system, really convenient. Great for parties and TV watching and stuff. I think...

If you decide to go with speaker level impedance matching volume controls, do not go with the cheap Dayton ones that claim to handle "50 watts" from parts express. I fried the living s**t out of these in short order with my old circa 1982 JVC 30wpc RMS stereo receiver. They SUCK. I have new ones...

Run the appropriate cables for modifying things / upgrading down the road. I don't know if the A/B switch is going to work the way you want it to. If your receiver has a "Tape Out", a really easy option would be to pick up a cheap old used stereo receiver on Ebay, run the "tape out" to the...

Why do you need a hub if you have impedence mathing volume controls? Advice: You need volume controls that can handle mongo power. The amp section of that Yamaha may not be up to the task of running the speakers loud. It should be fine at low volumes. Keep the volume up on the volume controls...