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pnfabian

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I have a Yamaha RX-A730, 4 Klipsch reference towers, and so far one subwoofer. Our house has an open floor plan first floor and we decided to put speakers in our front room with the tv and in our back room where we entertain and spend most of our time. I recently put a subwoofer in the tv room. When the receiver is set to 2.1 it works great in that room. When we set 7 channel stereo it works great in the first floor. I'd like to add a sub to the back 2 channels but I'm not sure how I should wire it. When I initially set the second room on zone 2 I swear there was a delay in the sound, plus controlling volume evenly was not easily accessible. If I wire the room 2 sub "downstream" of the room, by way of running speaker cable of each tower to the new sub, will that suck power from those towers? That will guarantee that the sub won't turn on unless power is going to those speakers. But I'm thinking that the best option is to use a wireless transmitter to connect to the second sub but I don't think I can assign that sub to only turn on with 7 channel stereo and not with 2.1? the options menus on the receiver don't present me with choices unless I have something already hooked up. Any advice? Open to all suggestions but I don't really want to run a third line clear across the house for the sub hence the transmitter.
 

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I’m afraid your post is hopelessly muddled and confusing. It sounds like you have two rooms and want to add a sub to one of them, but I can’t tell for sure which one. I can’t even tell which room you have the Yamaha and Klipsch equipment in. Please try again, and focus on exactly what you need done, and only in the room you want it done in. That will help us a lot. Thanks.


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Wayne A. Pflughaupt
 

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I'm not making sense of it either. The 730 doesn't have provision for Zone 2 subwoofer. Unless he means running one high level.
 

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I'll take a stab. Zone 2 is typically full range with no bass management, so yes you can hook a sub up to that signal as long as it has speaker level inputs. Then you can either use the sub's filtered output or run them full range - sub has to be blended manually in either case.


For the rears, same thing, but in the main room, you're better off putting funds toward the best primary sub you can get rather than adding another as part of the rear channels (which would then need to be set to large).
 

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