BRay11
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I am a novice in need of advice:
I recently did my basement into a home theater. In addition to the TV area, I wanted 2 additional listening areas in other rooms in the basement with their own separate speakers (2 speakers for each zone - 4 total) on their own separate volume controls (wall control in each area - 2 total).
I ran the wiring for this: 2 speaker wires from receiver to each of the wall volume controls, then obviously speaker wire from the wall control to each of the speakers. Each zone (wall control) is separately wired back to the receiver - NOT wired "in-line" from receiver to zone 2, then from zone 2 to zone 3.
I bought the Onkyo 705 to run all of this - which I am VERY happy with. TV area 5.1 sound is great and works fine. However, after reading the manual (several times) I am now very confused about how to wire these other 2 zones into the receiver. I admit I don't fully grasp the "impedance" issues that go with wiring the speakers/volume control.
I have been told I need a device called a "match-it" (?) to accommodate the 2 additional zones/speakers I have. At this point I am somewhat lost.
(1) I can't figure out what this "match-it" is, why I need it and how it fits in to the set-up if I do need it, (2) whether there are any particular requirements I need to have in the wall volume controls for the 2 extra zones, and (3) how to wire this set-up into the Onkyo 705 to be able to send different outputs (different from that playing in zone 1/TV area) to these 2 other zones.
Any help or advice would be very much appreciated. Thanks
I recently did my basement into a home theater. In addition to the TV area, I wanted 2 additional listening areas in other rooms in the basement with their own separate speakers (2 speakers for each zone - 4 total) on their own separate volume controls (wall control in each area - 2 total).
I ran the wiring for this: 2 speaker wires from receiver to each of the wall volume controls, then obviously speaker wire from the wall control to each of the speakers. Each zone (wall control) is separately wired back to the receiver - NOT wired "in-line" from receiver to zone 2, then from zone 2 to zone 3.
I bought the Onkyo 705 to run all of this - which I am VERY happy with. TV area 5.1 sound is great and works fine. However, after reading the manual (several times) I am now very confused about how to wire these other 2 zones into the receiver. I admit I don't fully grasp the "impedance" issues that go with wiring the speakers/volume control.
I have been told I need a device called a "match-it" (?) to accommodate the 2 additional zones/speakers I have. At this point I am somewhat lost.
(1) I can't figure out what this "match-it" is, why I need it and how it fits in to the set-up if I do need it, (2) whether there are any particular requirements I need to have in the wall volume controls for the 2 extra zones, and (3) how to wire this set-up into the Onkyo 705 to be able to send different outputs (different from that playing in zone 1/TV area) to these 2 other zones.
Any help or advice would be very much appreciated. Thanks
