After reading that DTS:NEO 6 was equivalent to Prologic II I recently purchased the reduced price Denon AVR 3801
The set up I am aiming for is a home theatre system whilst using external speakers outside.
Ie front left ,front right , front center , sub ,rear left ,rear right ,rear center (total of 7 speakers or I believe 6.1) PLUS external speakers via the surround back/ multi zone connection
From reading the manual it appears that this set up is not possible as the multizone / surround back is either a center rear (connected to the Surr. back L channel) or a pair of multi zoned speakers. Does any one know if this is correct?
If this is correct how does one use the Dobly Digital Matrix 6.1 whilst running external speakers?
It seems that the surround speaker A & B are sent the same signal. Thus one cannot be run as a center rear.
If this is the case, then what is the difference between the surround back / multi zone output and the surround A&B speakers? (there must be a difference as it appears that the center rear can only run from there).
I would be grateful of any responses as I have spoken to the dealer and searched the Denon site without a satisfactory response.
One suggestion went something like connecting the center rear to the multi zone / surround back left channel then use the rear surround A as rears for the theatre setup and the rears B as external speakers. Once set up run the amp in 7 channel stereo for external speakers -- but this would seem to defeat the purpose of the Denon 3801 amps multizone.
Anonymous
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First of all, the Denon AVR 3801/3802 makes you choose your poison. It cannot give you multizone capability with 7.1 on also. You have to hard wire it one way or the other and set it up correctly with your OSD.
If you want 7.1 and multizone, they recommend you hook up you multizone speakers through another amplifier(or your old receiver) and drive the multizone speaker that way.
The surround A/B is designed to give you a choice within your room on listening taste. For exampe, you might use surround A for dipole speakers to the left and right of your listening area for movies. You might switch to surround B for directional speakers slightly to the rear of the dipoles to listen to music.
I am having a problem getting multi zone to work. I have outside speakers connected to Surround Back/Multi Zone. How do i get music to play on these speakers? The manual provides is terrible and provides no clear instructions. Thanks!
Anonymous
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