On August 6, 2012 at 10:26, SB Smarthomes said...
Thanks guys...
This room is using a AVR-2313CI that doesn't have pre-outs from the Main zone (only record outs that are fixed), so I needed the speaker > line level converter to keep volume in both rooms synced and this also resolved the audio sync issue nicely.
I'm aware of the audio delay units, but once again, this would have only resolved the audio sync issue and not solved keeping the volume in both zones in sync.
I originally thought about using an external auto switching amp like Bryan suggested, but really didn't have room in this rack. The Audio control piece was also really inexpensive (and small). It cost about the same as the GefenTV AD converter that I originally had in place for the AppleTV and was able to remove.
Bryan - You mentioned ramping volume in both zones by issuing both IR commands. I've never tried this and just discounted it as probably not feasible. Seems like if you used a macro to send both Z1 & Z2 volume commands that it would eventually get out of sync and would probably also make volume commands sluggish. Also not sure how this would work when holding the button to repeat the command? Does this actually work?
Like most things CI, there's more than one way to skin the cat. This was the simplest, least expensive and smallest solution I could come up with to accomplish exactly what I needed for this job and it's working perfectly so thought I'd share.
If you were using a 3313 with the LF /RF loop back method you would just set the zone two volume to a fixed level that matched the main zone and then as the main zone went up and down so would your zone two level. recapping that you would have to be in 5 chan stereo for this to work.
With the 2313, I am not sure but you used to be able to selectively track the main zone sources through the record output? I would like to try this my self because if the record out sums the main zone with processed delay that would be the ultimate solution because you could loop that back for zone two playback. My understanding is that with future models there will be no delay anyway, however up conversion will be gone, and so will a lot of the analog features, which seems rather counter intuitive because how will we get zone two or three to work if there are no analog inputs, no down and no up conversion?
