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One might think that perhaps when the people were writing the manual for the H/K 525 that they might have turned to the engineers and told them, "You know, pressing 5 buttons to turn on or off the zone 2 audio might not be the best idea." Unfortunately, they didn't. Does anyone have multiroom running on an H/K and have any tips?

my onkyo has dual room capabilities, but i dont use it. i have no idea how easy, or hard it is to manuever from one to another.

hope you get some tips..

bigjohn

I have had great success with my H/K multiroom system and don't know what all the complaints are about. I find the user interface very simple. I have an HK630 in the basement and an HK3270 in the bedroom. A single button turns the sound on and off in each room.

Hold on, did you mean multi-room off a single receiver ? Never mind

Thbbt!

Yeah, I'd like to be able to play the same thing in both rooms. When I bought the receiver, I misunderstood what it meant by Zone 2. Oops.

Geez, you're right. Multi-zone is "different material in each room", isn't it ?

I guess what we need are speaker switch boxes, not multizone.

You could always go with a speaker switch box. It may be the simplest way.

You two have me confused.

I used my 7200 for about a year in a 2 Zone configuration. The Zone 2 has its own remote. I don’t know about your model, but with the 7200, you go into the advance menu screen and enable it (which is just using the surround back channels for the second zone). There is a remote ‘remote’ sensor that plugs into the 7200 that the zone 2 remote talks to. After the second zone is enabled, I could select the source I wanted with the zone 2 remote and play at will. If you leave the second zone on, you can hear the same source in both zones, if you want. I could also have one source playing in zone 1, while a different source played in zone 2. Maybe I should take that back, it’s been a while, and I’m getting old. I may not have been able to listen to two different sources. I’ll have to check the manual and get back with that one.

Clear as mud?

Sorry to add to the confusion. I have never actually used zone 2 so I'll just stay out of this...

That's exactly how the 525 is. Unfortunately, I'm trying to minimize the number of cables (and hence the size of the hole I have to drill) through the wall. Plus my wife likes using the Zone 2 remote for main functions in the living room. Oh well, Harmony time...

I'm interested in how this turns out... been tossin around ideas on utilzing my 630's zone 2... although I wouldn't be using the speaker outs, just the RCA out to another reciever.

Alan had once suggested looking at Russound for speaker selectors. They also appear to have A/B switchers for speakers and multisource components for those looking to do some home A/B switching (with line leveling as far as i can tell).

Hi kcarlile,

Yep, there's a second remote in the box for my 525 for Zone 2, but I've never used it. At this stage in my life I don't want sound in a second zone (ha, ha). I just go into the bedroom and fall asleep.

And that 525 manual is a pain. I'll have a word with Gena (Harman)--I know, namedropper, but she really is a lovely person.

Regards,

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And that 525 manual is a pain. I'll have a word with Gena (Harman)--I know, namedropper, but she really is a lovely person.

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Is it just me, or do other folks also think the 635 manual is somewhat of a pain? This is in comparison to the Onkyo manuals.

I thought the Onkyo manual was pretty poor...................................................................................until I got a Denon. I now think the Onkyo manual is pretty damned good.

The sad truth is most manuals from foreign electronics companies suck. I'm pretty good at technical writing. Maybe I've missed my calling in life... but I doubt sales are made or broken by the quality of a product's manual, so maybe there's no incentive for them to improve.

Ditto….

I have a couple espresso machines that are maid in Switzerland. The manuals are completely worthless.

The manual may be worthless, but the image of the Swiss maid I have in my head... priceless.

I'm intrigued by their A-BUS stuff, but you have to give them your email addy to find a dealer. I don't think so! And somehow 7.5 watts with 1% THD is not appealing, even going into M3s...

Jack,
Denon should hire some technical personnel to write their manuals. When I received my Denon AVR-2105 from ecost the manual was no surprise as I had already down-loaded it from the Denon site to get a jump on things. The best part is when I purchased my new Sony 50" TV recently, the technician hooked up the TV, the Denon receiver, DVD, VCR, CD Changer, Axioms and set-up the receiver without the manual. I just handed him the remote control and he did his thing. All said and done, he was out the door 45 minutes later. Talk about service and no extra charges!!!!!
Cheers,
Shaun

I was wondering where in the hell you came up with that, then saw the spelling……..(I was stoned through English/grammer).

But now you’ve got me thinking about my girl in a maid’s uniform……we’ve been apart for close to three months with two weeks to go, and now this. Thanks bud…great, just great. I….must…..be…..strong……12….more…..days……….