How To Hook Up Zone 2 Speakers

On the other hand some receivers provide separate speaker connections for both a 7 1 channel and zone 2 setups.

How to hook up zone 2 speakers. If you have connected an ir repeater follow these steps using the supplied remote control to operate the receiver from zone 2. The height speakers ceiling speakers and dolby atmos enabled speakers can be connected to the height1 speaker terminals. You can connect speakers for up to 9 channels for main zone. This leaves you with you 7 channels of surround sound in zone 1.

When you connect speakers for 8 or more channels the output speakers automatically switch according to the input signal and sound mode. Hit the power button to turn on zone 2. However in this type of setup if you are listening to the main zone in full 7 1 channel surround sound you cannot use zone 2. Let s say you have a nine channel receiver with 11 speaker outputs.

Switch the small switch from main to zone 2. When zone 2 is on the primary zone system defaults to 5 1 channels. Watch how to setup zone 2 on an onkyo tx nr609 receiver. You can hook up a full nine channel surround sound system plus stereo speakers in another room.

When you are listening to music in zone 2 two of the rear channels drop from your surround mix. You cannot remedy the time gap between video on zone 2 tv and audio from zone 2 speakers using the a v sync function. When zone 2 is activated the receiver diverts the power generally sent to the sixth and seventh channels to the zone 2 speaker connections. Select the input that you want for zone 2.

Connect your two 6ohm or 8ohm speakers to the extra sp zone2 f presence treminals. There may be additional speaker connections on the receiver that allow you to connect a full 7 1 channel as well as a second or third zone to be powered by the receiver s internal amplifier. Turn on the receiver and play the source that you want to listen to in zone 2. Setting up zone 2 using the extra speaker terminals.

Setup on the receiver. For details see setting the speakers for zone 2. Brought to you by onkyo product support. Please also watch our other video on how to use zone 2.