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Posted on Mar 15, 2009

Yamaha RX-V3800 receiver zone two audio problems

I have set up my RX-V3800 for my outdoor speakers. I connected them to the SP1 connections and set them up in the manual setup/options. The zone 2 remote works for them, however it only works for the "audio only" inputs (i.e. tuner and ipod dock), when any of the video with audio inputs are selected (i.e. dvd, hd-dvd, or dtv) no audio is passed to the zone 2 speakers. I want all the audio to be passed since I play cds on my dvd player and would like to hear the tv audio for game days. How can I fix this?

  • jamesbrownuk May 01, 2009

    I cannot get the sky or ps3 to transfer to zone 2. I am connecting to the sp1 ports and specifying these in the GUI for zone 2, Net/USB works, yet I cannot get the video sources to transfer, if this is correct and digital sources transfer only....what a useless function.

    Please help and reassert my faith in this amp.

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To get audio with this set up also hooked up analog audio RCA cables for the audio for each piece of equipment for 2 channel out put. Zone 2 will not out put a digital signal and this receiver will not down convert a audio signals to analog if using digital audio hook-ups.

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