I was dead set on buying a Denon 3313Ci BUT found this nasty hidden gem that apparently it won't play HDMI audio out to zone 2 and 3? For an amp designed for all of it's inputs to be HDMI that makes it pretty worthless as a multizone don't you think? I've been researching like crazy and trying to find ways around this but haven't seen definitive answers. My planned setup is this:
Reciever will directly play zone 1, a 5.1 surround room Zone two will pre-amp via RCA to a 2 channel receiver to play my outdoor speakers Zone three will pre-amp via RCA to a 4 channel receiver to play in 4 rooms of the house.
Zone 2 and 3 only need to carry audio from any of my sources.
Sources are: 2 cox cable boxes (there is an outdoor TV that I'm going to have an HDMI splitter and switch to be able to go back and forth but will need to be able to switch the audio as needed) Sony blu-ray player Apple TV
I've heard the 3312 may have an easier time of this. But basically I want surround sound available from the 2 cable boxes and blu-ray for zone 1, but that audio also needs to be available in stereo for zone 2 and 3 on demand. If when zone 2 or 3 are active if zone 1 needs to revert to stereo temporarily that's fine.
