Need a little help with a new Yamaha receiver and outdoor speakers

[jslow68]

I have been banging my head against the wall trying to get my outdoor speakers to work. I have a 5.1 system inside.
I purchased a Yamaha RX-V671 receiver with a 2nd zone to run the outdoor speakers. I wanted to run my outdoor speakers off this but I found out they will only take an analog signal. I am trying to access my music through apple tv. But that is hooked up with and HDMI cable, so it won't work.
I also tried a external 2 channel amp connected to the Zone 2 out jacks. Still nothing.

Does any one have a solution? Whats the point of the second zone if it's only analog?
I'm not an expert by any means. So any help is appreciated.
Thanks!

 

[avnetguy]

Yup, that's a real PIA with these second zones. You could convert your Apple TV's optical out to analog and feed that into the Yamaha for the second zone.

Steve

 

[jamie2112]

I am really suprised Apple didn't add L/R out on the apple tv 2. The 1st one had audio out and worked fine. I would say the best and cheapest way is to buy this and convert from opt to analog.

Amazon.com: Digital Coax & Optical Toslink to Analog Audio Converter: Electronics

 

[macddmac]

Same problem here.. I bought an emotiva Xda1 to enhance the sq of the streamed music .also has multiple inputs for additional digital sources

 

[jslow68]

I ended up buying this one. Hopefully it works. I will update when I get it.

FiiO D3 Digital to Analog Audio Converter With Micca 6ft Optical Toslink Cable 2kHz/24bit Optical and Coaxial DAC