Thanks in advance for any help as this issue has been causing me grief. I have structured cabling in my home with 2 CAT6, 2 RG6 and 2 optical cables. They all terminate in my closet. I have Speakercraft AIM8 speakers in every room where the structured caballing terminates. I have a receiver (Onkyo TX-SR605) in one room that can output stereo audio to a second zone. I want to be able to send the audio from the receiver to another room but I do not have a speaker wires between the rooms. All I have is the cables I listed above.
It appears that I can use a balun to take the preamp signal from the receiver, send it over CAT6 to the other room and use a local amplifier to output it to the speakers. However, I would prefer not to have any amplifier in that room as it is our dining room and my wife doesn’t like the idea of having an amplifier in that room. Is there any way I can use CAT6 or RG6 cable to send the audio from the speakers outputs on the receiver for zone 2 to the other room? If not, can I use the balun setup I described and would the audio be out of sync if I used that setup?
Basically, I am looking for as way to get the zone 2 audio from the receiver in one room to the other room and to have playback synchronized since the rooms are very close. I am fine using the amplifier if necessary but I thought there should be a way to extender speaker wire of CAT6. For instance, are there baluns that have speaker outputs versus RCA outputs.
Thanks
