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gaugedoc

Audiophyte
Marantz sr7005 how do you wire for zone 2 and 3 when running 7.1 surround
 
lovinthehd

lovinthehd

Audioholic Jedi
Wiring would be via rca cables from the zone 2/3 preouts to an amp....
 
vsound5150

vsound5150

Audioholic
Wiring would be via rca cables from the zone 2/3 preouts to an amp....
What's the common setup? Do you place the amp in zone 2/3 so you can control volume which means running long RCA cables, or do you keep the amp near the receiver and run long speaker wires? I'm thinking about setting up my garage as zone 2.
 
lovinthehd

lovinthehd

Audioholic Jedi
What's the common setup? Do you place the amp in zone 2/3 so you can control volume which means running long RCA cables, or do you keep the amp near the receiver and run long speaker wires? I'm thinking about setting up my garage as zone 2.
I'd run longer speaker wires over longer rca cables for cost/interference issues. Controlling volume over my wifi network is easy enough no matter where the gear is (except for my older units without such features).
 
j_garcia

j_garcia

Audioholic Jedi
Speaker wire is actually more prone to noise since it has no shielding, but it depends on the length of the run. In this case, it is after amplification though, so may be less of an issue, but the longer the run for amplified signal, the larger the wire you need to run too. For really long runs, you can use RG6 / 59 and use RCA terminations and it works fine. Speaker wire in wall needs to be UL rated.
 
lovinthehd

lovinthehd

Audioholic Jedi
Speaker wire is actually more prone to noise since it has no shielding, but it depends on the length of the run. In this case, it is after amplification though, so may be less of an issue, but the longer the run for amplified signal, the larger the wire you need to run too. For really long runs, you can use RG6 / 59 and use RCA terminations and it works fine. Speaker wire in wall needs to be UL rated.
I've had several long runs of speaker wire in several setups, no noise issues. Never needed/wanted to put the amp near the remote speakers, so no experience if I had tried to run long rca cables, it never even occurred to me when I did those longer runs. How would speaker wire be anything but post amplifier?
 
j_garcia

j_garcia

Audioholic Jedi
I've seen HT installers who don't know run speaker wire for speaker level input to a sub! lol. That picked up noise because they also ran it near power lines in one section.
 
lovinthehd

lovinthehd

Audioholic Jedi
I've seen HT installers who don't know run speaker wire for speaker level input to a sub! lol. That picked up noise because they also ran it near power lines in one section.
Shame they're called "installers" in such a case.
 
slipperybidness

slipperybidness

Audioholic Warlord
What's the common setup? Do you place the amp in zone 2/3 so you can control volume which means running long RCA cables, or do you keep the amp near the receiver and run long speaker wires? I'm thinking about setting up my garage as zone 2.
Personally, I don't mess with a zone 2, I just put another AVR in the other room.
 
vsound5150

vsound5150

Audioholic
I'd run longer speaker wires over longer rca cables for cost/interference issues. Controlling volume over my wifi network is easy enough no matter where the gear is (except for my older units without such features).
Good point forgot about controlling over wifi via phone app.. I like the idea keeping the amp in the house with the rest of the gear. Temperatures in my garage swing quite a bit from hot and cold I already have a network switch taking the abuse out there for security surveillance.
 
lovinthehd

lovinthehd

Audioholic Jedi
Good point forgot about controlling over wifi via phone app.. I like the idea keeping the amp in the house with the rest of the gear. Temperatures in my garage swing quite a bit from hot and cold I already have a network switch taking the abuse out there for security surveillance.
I use an avr in my garage/workshop, it probably only gets as low as 30 degrees and maybe 95 or so in summer, but I'm not out there at those extremes :)
 
slipperybidness

slipperybidness

Audioholic Warlord
I use an avr in my garage/workshop, it probably only gets as low as 30 degrees and maybe 95 or so in summer, but I'm not out there at those extremes :)
Yup, I'm about the same here, I don't use an AVR, but I have powered speakers and an older pio cassette-loading CD player in the garage.

But, we get up to 105F routinely over the summers.
 

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