Stereo sound out of rear speakers

Eurofighter

Eurofighter

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Got an issue. I have TV at one end of the room and my PC at the back of the room. I am going to buy a Yamaha AV reciever and appropriate surround sound speakers which will be great for my TV.

But at the back of the room I have my PC. I'm guessing if I use a stereo amp I cant just connect up to the rear speakers to use them in stereo and that I need some kind of switch.

Or can this be achieved by connecting to pre outs or some such fancy ness. Please help.
 
If you buy one of the Yamaha AV receivers that supports multiple set-up profiles, and you go for a 7.1 / 5.1 + Zone 2 configuration, then you can do what you want without any additional switchery nonsense. The only caveat is that unless you're going high-end on the Yamaha, then Z2 must be fed with an analogue signal. You'll have analogue stereo out on the sound card orother board audio outs.
 
So I can connect both the PC and TV to the av reciever and then have stereo coming from the back speakers with right and left swapped over?

The am I'm going to get is the RXV6A.
 
This is a feature of the Aventage range and not the RX-series.

The closest you're going to get then is probably using an additional pair of speakers for Zone 2; maybe something small such as desktop monitors? If you do decide to go with a speaker swich solution then make sure it fully isolates the two amplifiers from each other.

Alternatively, you could run from the Zone 2 pre-outs in to a stereo amp with AV mode. What this does is bypass the pre-amp section of the stereo amp and treat it a bit like a power amplifier when you want to run the system in surround. This means that the speakers you're driving from it always get the same volume preset level so the speaker balance in surround won't get messed up each time you switch back from stereo use.

It is possible to sort of replicate the effect by having a known volume dial position setting and making sure that it's always returned to that setting, but obviously it takes a bit of attention each time you switch to using surround. This is still better though than using naff speaker switches.
 
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Interesting. I think running the rear speakers through a stereo amp would work ok but it would mean having both amps turned on to watch tv. Which is a bit of hassle . I might just use seperate speakers for the computer tbh. Seems less hasstle.

Do you think that yamaha will make Aventage recievers for 2020 with hdmi 2.1. Seems strange that they have only brought out 2 recievers this year.
 
I think everything is up in the air at the moment. We've had 13 years of economic turmoil from the sub-prime crash. That has overlapped with two years of Brexit fallout. Then, on top of that, six months of Covid lock downs, store closures, redundancies etc. I wouldn't like the job of trying to forecast what might sell to plan what to produce, not to mention working around supply and staffing issues for the factories themselves.
 
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