Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Home Theater Denon 3808CI – one week later

Yeah, you're pretty much stuck. Pretty much nothing in this class uses speaker B. What Speaker B is (as we're describing it) is actually just like hooking up 2 sets of speakers up to the front amps. So if you've got M80s in both places, you would be presenting a 2 ohm load to the amp. Not a good idea (no matter what Mojo keeps doing to his poor Denon). Personally, I use a separate receiver for my Zone 2, fed from the Zone 2 outs on my H/K. This of course means that I have to connect them using analog cables, but my setup allowed for that. All I had to do was punch a couple holes in the wall and put in some RCA wall plates.

Of course, since you've got speaker wire run already, how about just hooking up a little integrated amp or receiver to those Zone 2 analog outs on the Denon, setting the second receiver next to it, and hooking up the exterior speakers to that? It's kind of a kludge, but it would get you what you're looking for.