Multizone receiver recommendations

I loved the interface of Sonos when a camp I rented had them setup inside and out. But damn that’s expensive.

I am putting a tv but haven’t really thought about if I will connect it to the speakers or not. I could see a benefit to hooking them up.

I ended up going with the receiver linked in the OP.

I considered going with the newer one that had 2 hdmi out but couldn’t justify the $200 extra. I have a firestick I can stick on the outdoor tv and just run tv output back to the receiver if I really want tv sound on the outdoor speakers (zone2).

I tested everything before putting it away until the house is finished building and it works like a champ and should be able to do everything I want. It has a solid phone app to control everything from.

One thing I I would like is if it could play directly from my plex server off the home laptop. It recognizes it but says access denied when I try to play music. However it will play from whatever server windows automatically sets up in network sharing so I can’t complain too much.

That’s a debate I am having with myself now for the back patio since I already have speakers for the living room (not recessed).

I am leaning towards not recessed for outdoor as well. Easier to deal with if inever have to change them out.

I’m lucky though because my attic access is right next to the wall behind the entertainment center and about 10-15 feet from the patio so should be easy for me to work on if I change my mind.

That looks like a newer version of mine. The only thing I would recommend is that when you wire it up, label the wires with a sharpie at the end of the wire next to the hook up at the receiver. This will be extremely helpful if you ever have to undo it all.

We replaced the floors in our living room. My MIL and wife took it all apart when I wasn’t home. I had to get up in the attack and basically rerun everything to know where to put it all back together .

Oh yes labeled everything as I am going. Like I said I can go with this one receiver for 1400 or 2 okyno/denon lower end and do the same thing. I got several runs of cat5/coax in every room coming into one spot in the house where my rack will go. Looks like garbage now but once everything gets terminated will be good to go. My receiver needs to be alexa enabled with amazon music. Thats what my house will be using is alexa.

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Hogkiller10

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i have a denon avr x3200w

dual zone video/audio


it works well for my setup which is 5.1 in the living room, and stereo speakers/tv on the back porch, which is used as zone 2.

i can play directv/firetv or any input I have connected to the receiver in the cabinet to my outside TV, independent of whats playing in the living room. There are models with more features, but none that i really feel like I'm missing.


The only thing I can't seem to figure out is how to play music on the back patio, with video on the TV. I can do that in the living room just fine, but can't seem to get it to work on zone 2.

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I need speaker recommendations. Im going shopping today.

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i can't say i would be of much help


my house already had some bose in-ceiling speakers, and I had no real interest in replacing them

i'm not an audiophile at all, but more a fan of electronics and the like