I thought that with some receivers the same switching circuitry handles zone 2 OR record out but when you use one, it disables the other? So, he could enable zone 2 output but would not have use of selectable record out (or vice-versa).
I don't know Yamahas as well, but that's what I recall on some Onkyos. I haven't tried the most recent ones.
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