DENON 5800 & pre-amp multi-room question (1 Viewer)

[Jah-Wren Ryel]

I have a main theatre room with stand alone amps. I also have a living room that right now is running on an old sony pro-logic receiver. I am thinking about buying a denon 5800 and using it's 7.1 pre-amp outputs in my theatre room and using the 7 amplified/speaker outputs in my living room. I will never need to have both rooms in use simultaneously.
My question is - is it easy to shut off or otherwise mute the speaker outputs on the 5800 while leaving the pre-amp outputs alone? I want to avoid running the speakers in my living room while watching movies in my theatre room. I looked through the online manual for the 5800 and I could not find mention of anything like this, other than using the multizone-2 amplified speaker outputs which is not what I want to do, I will have 7 speakers in my living room. I don't care about the reverse - I can always turn off the amps in my theatre room.

 

[Wayne A. Pflughaupt]

My question is - is it easy to shut off or otherwise mute the speaker outputs on the 5800 while leaving the pre-amp outputs alone?

’Fraid not, Jah-Wren. You will have to wire-in switches to manually turn off the speakers. I doubt you will find a 7-pole switch, so it will take a few switches to do this. If you can find a 4-pole switch at an electronic hobby shop, you could do it all with 2 switches.
Regards,
Wayne A. Pflughaupt
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