Anthony Moore
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- Jul 12, 2001
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So I'm not an HT newbie and Ive setup the multi-zone on my Denon 3802, but I need a little advice on a bigger project.
My dad is building his own home, and wants some help setting up an audio system through the house....but doesnt really want to pay someone else to do it. (i think if we couldnt do it ourselves he wouldnt do it at all). Too expensive. Plus we have a best buy discount for the speakers.
He doesnt want anything too complicated though. We want to have a 5.1 living room and 5 other stereo zones. It would be nice to be able to listen to 2 diff sources (one in main living room and one source for all the others), but its not a necessary. And nothing too fancy in the rooms, just a volume knob.
I figure I could use a 2 source receiver. One will be Zone A hooked to the living room 5.1 setup. That would be simple. The other source will somehow need to be filtered out to all the other rooms. How would I go about best setting this up? It is also not necessary to be able to switch the B source from the other 5 zones. I know we will need to change the source for zone B at the receiver itself. (Unless there's a cheap system out there that would be easy to setup thats not too expensive [i know some of those wall panels are expensive])
Will there be an amp "pre-out" on the back of the receiver that I would connect a 10 channel amp to that would run with speaker wire to the other rooms?
Any good receiver and/or amp you can recommend?
Thanks for your advice and please let me know if you think im missing something.
My parents are not audiophiles, so they dont need the best/most expensive stuff..but I wanna make sure itll last.
Anthony
My dad is building his own home, and wants some help setting up an audio system through the house....but doesnt really want to pay someone else to do it. (i think if we couldnt do it ourselves he wouldnt do it at all). Too expensive. Plus we have a best buy discount for the speakers.
He doesnt want anything too complicated though. We want to have a 5.1 living room and 5 other stereo zones. It would be nice to be able to listen to 2 diff sources (one in main living room and one source for all the others), but its not a necessary. And nothing too fancy in the rooms, just a volume knob.
I figure I could use a 2 source receiver. One will be Zone A hooked to the living room 5.1 setup. That would be simple. The other source will somehow need to be filtered out to all the other rooms. How would I go about best setting this up? It is also not necessary to be able to switch the B source from the other 5 zones. I know we will need to change the source for zone B at the receiver itself. (Unless there's a cheap system out there that would be easy to setup thats not too expensive [i know some of those wall panels are expensive])
Will there be an amp "pre-out" on the back of the receiver that I would connect a 10 channel amp to that would run with speaker wire to the other rooms?
Any good receiver and/or amp you can recommend?
Thanks for your advice and please let me know if you think im missing something.
My parents are not audiophiles, so they dont need the best/most expensive stuff..but I wanna make sure itll last.
Anthony