This is pure genius.
On August 5, 2012 at 11:19, iimig said...
The other nice thing about this is that your sources would not need analog connections. A huge bonus with ATV in the mix.
Not only fewer cables, as mentioned, but instant tracking of zone 2 with zone 1. And you could still connect other sources directly to zone 2 to play different things in the second zone.
I've been thinking of trying this with an AVR That has 7.1 pre outs. Just route L/R pre-out into Zone 2. The disadvantage would be the main zone DSP would have to be All Channel Stereo, but depending on usage it could be fine.
This product is designed for power amp signals to be summed. Is there a similar device (other than a classic mixer) already made that accepts line level signals? It would be genius to use that, too!
Why would the main zone have to be in All Channel Stereo? In thinking about this, we come up against the idea that surround is a distribution of the existing signals to several zones -- summing them should give decent stereo. Of course, if you set your surround to replicate the Frankfurt Airport, a summed sound would just be so much echo. But then, it's just so much echo when the channels are separated! I don't see any harm in combining DSP channels for Zone 2.
Still, genius.
Very clever idea!
No. Genius.
