Two Room Set-up

[mblack3]

Hello and thanks in advance for your help and advice!

So the situation we are in is as follows:

We have two rooms with 4 speakers in each (total of 8). We also have two cable boxes, 4 monitors, two receivers and an Apple TV gizmo.

With various hdmi cables and splitters, we have the video set up to the monitors so that two different channels can be watched or one on all four, no problem there.

However, we want flexibility with the audio. At times, we are playing music through the Apple TV (off a cell phone) and at other times, we are watching TV with the audio from cable box and the other silent. Thats all fine just using the one receiver.

What we would like to accomplish, however, is be able to have music through the Apple TV, for example, playing in one room and the TV in the other, or be able to control volume levels in each room, etc.

In other words, if I have this understood right (my brain is all flustered after working with this all day) is that we want 4 speakers hooked up to Receiver A, 4 to Receiver B. We would like Receiver A, then, to feed audio inputs to Receiver B so that one could select what is heard on each without having to try and split each device's input to go to each and all that. We have tons of R/W cables and would just rather "connect" the two if that makes sense.

So would it be possible to "connect" these two so that with every device (including the future blu-ray and xbox's and whatever else) feeding into Receiver A, Receiver B could then select which one it want to play?

Does this make sense???

I can try to clarify if needed...thanks so much!!!

[StevenSurprenant]

Something along these lines? The Multi-Zone Feature in Home Theater and Stereo Receivers

[mblack3]

Something along these lines? The Multi-Zone Feature in Home Theater and Stereo Receivers

Yeah I think so...

[mblack3]

This is the main receiver we have:

Receiver | A/V Receiver | Stereo Receiver | AVR | TX-SR575 | Onkyo USA

Is it possible to accomplish this multi-zone thing with this?

[StevenSurprenant]

I'm not absolutely sure, but I don't think your receiver allows Multi room source selection. I think it just duplicates whats playing in the main system.

I did look at my receiver (Yamaha) instructions and it does allow using different sources in different rooms. It also gives the option of just sending the signal to another amp or using the receivers amp to power speakers in a different zone.

I'm pretty sure that Onkyo has receivers that will do what you want.

Maybe someone else knows for sure? Anyone?

[StevenSurprenant]

Another thing...

If you do get this set up, you will probably need an IR extender to allow control of some of your sources from the "other" room.