Old guy here with a 5.1 speakers inside and a pair of large outside patio speakers. Does this receiver have speaker A / B switch to direct sound?
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Old guy here too. The "A/B" thing is pretty much replaced with Zone 1, Zone 2, etc. It's like a B set of speakers, but Zone 1 (your main room where the 5.1 is) can play one thing, and Zone 2 (your patio) can play something completely different, because there are multiple amps in the AVR. So, you can play a CD in Zone 1 (main room), and listen to Pandora in Zone 2 (patio). Of course, you can play the same thing in both zones if you like. It's more versatile than simple A/B.
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This model has a Zone A left and right as well as a Zone B left and right. So its set up for 4 speakers direct without any special wiring.
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There are two places for each set (right and left), so it would work fine on the outdoor speakers, but not the 5 speakers inside. Assuming this is a surround sound system like mine, I hooked up the center and two back speakers directly to the surround sound receiver, ran wire from the front two to this thing, and then ran wire from the A side to the surround sound speakers, and the B side to two standing speakers I use for listening to music. The 3 speakers hooked up to the receiver always play, but I can switch between the surround sound speakers for movies and the big speakers for music. I hope this helps! There are two places for each set (right and left), so it would work fine on the outdoor speakers, but not the 5 speakers inside. Assuming this is a surround sound system like mine, I hooked up the center and two back speakers directly to the surround sound receiver, ran wire from the front two to this thing, and then ran wire from the A side to the surround sound speakers, and the B side to two standing speakers I use for listening to music. The 3 speakers hooked up to the receiver always play, but I can switch between the surround sound speakers for movies and the big speakers for music.... » Read More There are two places for each set (right and left), so it would work fine on the outdoor speakers, but not the 5 speakers inside. Assuming this is a surround sound system like mine, I hooked up the center and two back speakers directly to the surround sound receiver, ran wire from the front two to this thing, and then ran wire from the A side to the surround sound speakers, and the B side to two standing speakers I use for listening to music. The 3 speakers hooked up to the receiver always play, but I can switch between the surround sound speakers for movies and the big speakers for music. I hope this helps! « Show Less
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There is no individual speaker control switch. All adjustments are done at the receiver unit. At least on mine anyway.
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Yes, it will work fine on your receiver. You would connect the inputs of the speaker switch to the left and right FRONT speaker jacks on the receiver, then connect your main surround speakers to the Speakers 1 jacks. The Speakers 2, 3 and 4 pairs of jacks can support speakers outside or in other rooms. Note that when you run speakers in other areas, it would be best to switch your receiver's playback mode to TWO CHANNEL STEREO, which will turn off the center and surround channels.
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Yes 5.1 in main room with RCA out for Sub. Use zone 2 for 2.1 stereo. Speaker out wires from receiver willconnect to powered sub with speaker level input.From sub connect left and right speakers.
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I do not have this specific receiver, but based on the specs and experience with similar receivers this unit has one additional powered zone supporting 2 (stereo) speakers and one non-powered zone. So I believe you could hook up 2 outdoor speakers directly to this receiver but would need an additional amplifier for 2 more speakers. Also, all the receivers I've used will not output a different digital source on the additional zones than the one being used in the main zone -- just analog sources. In other words, only one digital source at a time so if you to watch a Blu-ray inside while playing music outside, you'll need an analog input for the music. This can be a serious limitation depending on what you want to do, so you may want to find a manual online and check into that before buying.
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No. It has a port for subwoofer cable, and jacks for regular speaker wire, either way you'll need to hardwire it to your receiver.
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No it is just the receiver, I purchased also a polk audio speaker set with sub and it works great!
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Yes. The receiver has two subwoofer outputs. They cannot be separately controlled from the receiver.
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No, you can't do that on this receiver, in the way you could easily select "A Speakers" or "B Speakers" or "A
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The receiver needs to connect to your sound system and, yes, needs to be physically connected to a power source and your speakers. I use mine at school through our soundboard, so don't know if it hooks directly to the speakers.
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Stephen G., I'm interested in connecting 2 receivers and switching between them. I have a modern home theater receiver (Yamaha RX-V477) and a vintage receiver (Realistic STA-76 circa 1975). Each one does some things better than the other and I want to easily switch between them depending on what I want to do (like play vinyl on the vintage) and watch movies on the home theater receiver. If you know of something that can do this, please let me know. Thanks.
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Nope, it's just a passive ( speaker level ) inputs sub. You could in theory hook up a cheap amp/receiver and then run speaker wires to it, but I doubt you would see any major quality upgrade. The thing sounds great in the yard... Better now than last year I think. I have it mounted under my deck, and the bass just blends perfect with the satellites.
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No. This unit only has two output channels, left and right (stereo). '5.1' requires six channels, front: left & right, center, rear: left & right and subwoofer channel.
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Sony STR-DN1040 AV Receiver w/power amplifier for main Polk floor standing speakers.
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I don't know about an A/B switch but you can direct sound using your remotes zone switch.