Receiver to Receiver Connection for Multi Room Audio (1 Viewer)

[ACEastman]

My setup is as follows:

Home Theater (Family Room) - Yamaha RX-V661 7.1 rec with Polk Audio fronts, rears and sub (5.1). Sounds great!

Home Audio - Yamaha RX-V461 5.1 rec with 3 pairs of speakers in 3 different rooms - completely separate from the family room home theater.

I'd like to connect the two receivers, using the smaller receiver as an amp to push signal input from the home theater receiver filling the entire house up with audio. The RX-V661 (HT) has Zone 2 output (red & white RCA connection) which would be ideal for this but I can't seem to get it to work. I've tried virtually every different input/output combination with no success. I also have pre-out on the 661 but don't know if that would help.

1. Can the 461 be used as an amp in this situation?
2. What input do I use on the 461? (It does have multi-channel input.) Can I use any input as long as I have the 461 tuned to the correct audio in?
2. Are there certain settings on both receivers that I need to make sure are active?

Thanks for your help!!

 

[ACEastman]

Can anyone help me with this?

 

[Hogie]

I'm not real familiar with the Yamaha units, but definitely use the line out zone 2 connections on the 661 to any of the L/R input on the 461 except phono. Usually, Zone 2 functions have to be set up. Is there an on-screen GUI on the 661? How far apart do the two receivers live from each other? How do you have the speakers wired to the 461?

 

[CB750]

I have connected two older stereo receivers by connecting tape out on receiver #1 to tape in on receiver #2. Receiver # becomes the master and Receiver #2 is the slave.