On May 6, 2016 at 16:46, oprahthehutt. said...
If the main zone is only 5.1, route the rear channels to Zone 2/kitchen speaks. I would loop through a keypad location and keep it buried. So they can add a keypad later when they realize they wish they had one.
This is exactly what I did for a customer years ago. Worked great. Rear speakers where on a VC. The used it when they wanted ,turnd it down when they didnt. Just make sure all settings are set to ALL CHANNEL and not dolby or other processing.