On July 5, 2010 at 04:25, Ernie Bornn-Gilman said...
Forget everything I said.
This receiver is meant to work with five speakers for surround in one room.
Period.
Anything else you do will be hokey, cumbersome to operate, and might blow the amp. I don't know Sony receiver models (except to avoid anything stressful on any unit that's not an ES) and I thought this was a real receiver meant to work with whatever speakers you choose, with real outputs and speaker A/B switching. Doing what you want with this system is like milking a bull: if you do figure out how to do something that vaguely resembles what you want to do, what comes out will NOT be what you wanted!
Would it work to just use 2 outside speakers (instead of the planned 4) w/ a volume control, and run them into the same ports used as the inside's front right and left?
Of course then for it to sound right I suppose they'd have to have the receiver set to 2 channel stereo inside, which could get cumbersome, but do you think the 2 extra speakers would risk blowing the receiver?
They'd probably settle for this if it meant avoiding having to buy a whole new receiver.
