Receiver & Speaker Setup Question

[mspivy]

I have a Yamaha 5790 and am setting up a 5.1 system in the family room of a house currently under construction. I don't know a lot about "whole house wiring" but am planning on having speakers in a a couple of places other than just the family room. One spot that will have speakers for sure is that back patio. I'm also thinking about adding them to the "study", the "office" and maybe in the kitchen.

My question is about how to connect these additional speakers to the reciever. I'm planning on connecting the back patio to the Zone 2 speaker connection, but what do I do with the rest of the speakers....how do I connect them to the receiver? Can I set multiple speakers up as "Zone 2" so that whatever is being piped to the patio is also going to the "study" and the "office", but the kitchen is connected to the "main" speaker set so its getting the same sound as the family room???

I'm not sure how this works and would love some of your thoughts!!

Thanks.

 

[MasterChief]

I dont think you could have more than 1 zone 2. if u connect all the speakers to the reciever and then use the some type of dsp like 7ch stereo (on mine) then u would get music from speakers to matter were they are.

 

[Buckeyefan 1]

I have a Yamaha 5790 and am setting up a 5.1 system in the family room of a house currently under construction. I don't know a lot about "whole house wiring" but am planning on having speakers in a a couple of places other than just the family room. One spot that will have speakers for sure is that back patio. I'm also thinking about adding them to the "study", the "office" and maybe in the kitchen.

My question is about how to connect these additional speakers to the reciever. I'm planning on connecting the back patio to the Zone 2 speaker connection, but what do I do with the rest of the speakers....how do I connect them to the receiver? Can I set multiple speakers up as "Zone 2" so that whatever is being piped to the patio is also going to the "study" and the "office", but the kitchen is connected to the "main" speaker set so its getting the same sound as the family room???

I'm not sure how this works and would love some of your thoughts!!

Thanks.

You cannot hook up all those sets of speakers to the one receiver. You are limited to the number of zones the receiver allows. If the receiver was 7.1, you could use the 6th and 7th channel for a different room. It sounds like you need a separate component to hook all your rooms into, then select the speakers you would like to drive from that specific component. Your receiver cannot handle the load if you try to drive mulitple rooms at once.

 

[awesomebase]

Zones

For most 7.1 receivers, setting up another "Zone" as they state in their manual essentially removes the rear firing center speakers or in some cases the "presentation" speakers in the front. In either case, you are basically reduced to a 5.1 system by doing so (some receivers allow you 7.1 AND a seperate zone when that zone is hooked up through the presentation speakers, a stereo connector or rca plugs to an amplifier or amplified speaker setup). Most people I know never use more than the 5.1 system, but something you should check out is whether or not the receiver can play two digital sources at once. The reason being is that some people use the second zone for another TV system where they want to watch DVDs, etc. but may not need the 5.1 system. However, many receivers state that they can only allocate an analog source to the second zone. If that is a concern for you, make sure to look into it.
Personally, if you're routing cable to setup a whole-house audio system, I would either use a dedicated system for that, a receiver with one or more amplifiers attached to be able to drive the speakers, or a networked system with self-powered speakers. There are literally hundreds of systems available. Its worth a look if that suits your needs.

 

[Leprkon]

there are a number of ways to do what you want. You might go to this link and read up a little, but posters like BMXTRIX and RLA, who are professional install guys and usually stop by at least once a day, will be alot more helpful than I could be. you might also use the member's list and track down a few of their past posts on similar subjects.

http://www.crutchfield.com/S-F4SMTRZjBBo/cgi-bin/SuperProdGroup.asp?g=196150