Desperate

[Beed]

Hopefully somebody can help me out. I have four speakers indoor (R & L) and four speakers outdoor (R & L). I previously had a Sony STRDH190 2.0 Ch receiver. Fairly simple set up. Speaker A was indoor speakers and Speaker B outdoor. Plugged them in and it was good. However, there was no optical cable and so I returned it and got a Pioneer VSX-LX 103. Plugged in the indoor speakers into the surround and surround rear, hooked the optical cable up and no problems there. I plugged the outdoor speaker wires into zone 2 and this is my issue. I cannot get zone 2 to play outside. I don’t know if I am missing something or not properly tuning the receiver to zone 2. As you can tell I am fairly simple to these type of things and don’t need a crazy set up. If someone can help me with this zone 2 issue I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks.

 

[Leemix]

Did you turn on zone 2, its usually controlled separatly from main zone and probably is on Sony also.
Did you read the manual about zone 2 and how its used? It may need to be set as on somewhere instead of as rear or height speakers for example.
Did you connect to speaker out or line out connections?


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[Beed]

Hi Leemix,

I did read the manual and checked several YouTube videos and to my understanding this receiver has a “powered zone 2” option which would allow for simply placing speaker wires into the zone 2 speaker connection without the need for using the line out for zone 2 (which is what I did). I did find Z2 on the receiver, however on Z2 it does not play the outdoor speakers (whose speaker wires are in zone 2), but it plays the indoor speakers distorted. Thanks for the quick response.

 

[highfigh]

You need to assign the optical input- many AVRs don't activate it until this is done. It's in the setup menu.

 

[Leemix]

What highfigh wrote and also zone 2 chosen input is not always the same as main zone so you need to choose the right source input for the zone 2.

It might be easier to think of zone 2 as a separate integrated amplifier inside the reciever box.


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[Sef_Makaro]

You need to assign the optical input- many AVRs don't activate it until this is done. It's in the setup menu.

Exactly this. Separate zones usually need the input source assigned. Some AVRs have a main zone sync that works too.

 

[BMXTRIX]

You can't use digital audio for zone 2 on most receivers. The receiver has a single DAC internally so it is used to deal with audio to the main zone only.

If you have a digital audio source, that you want to feed only stereo audio for, then you should use both optical and analog inputs for that source and it will feed zone 2 properly.