2 zone home audio setup

I have my 6 interior speakers hooked up to receiver for surround sound and purchase one of these for my 4 outdoor speakers. Works perfectly with fm or Bluetooth.

Pyle receiver

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Why is it a strange setup?

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The impedance and the three speakers outside since most second zones are only two channel. Plus the dual coils. I don’t know the current impedance but I want to redo the receiver setup anyway so I can change it. The coils are 8ohm each.

I used the receiver to power my inside speakers and a heos amp to power my outside speakers. You could use the app to make both zones play the same thing or two separate things.

Buy 2 Sonos Amps and call it a day.

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I got this Denon after a lightning strike fried my Yamaha receiver. It is perfect for my needs. I have 5 speakers in the living room for surround sound and 2 on the back patio. The Heos app lets me control each zone independently or I can have them synced.

I especially like that I can not only play different sources in the 2 zones, but also specifically change the volume in each zone even if they are playing the same thing. We typically have the patio speakers a bit louder when we are outside since the kids are playing, fans going, and other noise. If the zone volumes were locked, this would put the indoor speakers at an uncomfortable level.

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This is the way.

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Buy 2 Sonos Amps and call it a day.

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I like the idea of using that. but has a similar problem as most of the receivers that have 2 channel second zones.

Does anyone know how i would wire in 3 speakers (6 coils) to make sure i'm not running it at 2ohms and cook it?

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Does anyone know how i would wire in 3 speakers (6 coils) to make sure i'm not running it at 2ohms and cook it?

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You haven’t explained “dual coil speaker”
Do they have only one single full range driver each? There are a lot of dual coil drivers out there but having a full dual coil loudspeaker would yield additional filtering requirements and generally just not be something a sane person would design. Maybe the drivers are just wired individually meaning the active or passive filtering is missing? Send a model number and it’ll be easier to help.


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“dual coil” speakers for distributed systems typically means they are to be hooked to the left and right channels simultaneously to play combined mono. This makes sense because hi fidelity only works when the listeners’ positions are known. This is so easy to do with analog or digital signal processing that you’d have to be crazy to do the combining at the loudspeaker, but that is what is happening here. You need a 12 channel amplifier to have individual speaker control and use them as intended. They’re a dime a dozen used but if you want modern features, here is one:

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See my edit above. Figured it out. You need a left and right channel to each speaker to work as intended. Any combining will sacrifice functionality. Just get correct amplifier and/or distribution system.
I’d stick with 6 zone system though as each of your dual speakers is its own zone. There are a ton on the market, I just linked first I saw, not a recommendation.

If you want to save $1k you can find a used 12 channel amplifier for $100 or less then add a couple airplay2 or chrome cast adapters. Call one indoor and one outdoor. Most 12 channel amplifiers have dual inputs to make wiring clean and easy.