Yamaha rx-v3300

[murphy26]

Good or bad - I purchased a Yamaha rx-v3300 reciever about a year ago for my home entertainment center which seems to work great. I'm using my old rx-v850 reciever as my main audio reciever which controls all my speakers through-out the rest of my house......except for my home theater room and here in lies my delama.
I would like to use my old reciever and tap into my two floor front speakers (a pair of PARADIGM - M7) in my home theater room but i dont know how. I know i dont want to run 2 sets of speaker wires BUT is there a way to link the 2 recievers or an easier way?

Please Help
MM

 

[Unregistered]

I'm confused. Are you currently using the old receiver for everything and the Paradigms and new receiver are not used at all? Or is the new receiver powering the Paradigms and the old receiver is powering everything else?

If what you are asking is how to use the new receiver to power the pardigms and the old receiver to power everything else (but be controlled by the new receiver) then you can use the pre-outs for zone2 on the new receiver to get the signal to the old receiver and it will power the other speakers.

 

[murphy26]

2 recievers / 1 set of speakers

Sorry, let me try to clarify:

The new receiver only powers my surround sound system, which we will call the “TV room”, and in that room I have a set of paradigm speakers.

My old receiver powers everything else (all the other rooms) which doesn’t include the paradigm speakers.

Instead of buying another set of speakers for my “TV room” I want use the paradigm speakers with the old receiver so I can have (music) playing in that room along with all the other rooms. I hope that make sense

An easy way around it would be to run speaker wires from both receivers to the 1set of paradigm speakers, but I’m afraid if someone fires up both receivers at the same time it could be ugly.

I'm not sure if the zone2 future will work for this application? But if so how would it be set-up and run?

thanks
MM

 

[joelincoln]

You can use an A-B switch but that would require a manual step.

Also, I wouldn't connect the two receivers together even if you could guarantee that they wouldn't be on at the same time. One receiver would always be driving the other's outputs. I'm not sure what the output impedance of an amplifier stage (even turned off) in addition to the extra cable hanging off it will do to the driving amp.