Zone 2 dilema

[tommyb]

I have my quad l-ites bi amped at the front L&R

this means my 875 won't drive the zone 2 speakers.

So - have to purchase an amp for my two speakers in zone 2

It's only for the kitchen, and I have two extra L-Ite speakers for it.

What type of amp should I be looking to connect the 875 to zone 2 that will be good for the Quad L-ite pair?

Suggestions of brand / model all welcome

 

[Anonymous]

I don't think you'd need anything too impressive, just a nice stereo power amp run from the pre-amp output of your receiver. This should do the duties very well, and leave plenty of space for pans and plates, etc: Click.

Edit: That amp is smaller in real life, than on screen! It's 10cm in width!

 

[Andrew Everard]

Or a nice clean secondhand Audiolab, NAD, Rotel... power amp.

Have a look at fleabay.

 

[tommyb]

So a Power amp is the way to go? thank you.

Will the 875 feed all my sources to the power amp via pre-outs, or, will it only feed analogue sources?

currently, my sky HD, Apple TV, Sony 350 all feed via HDMI or Optical. CD and SL1210 are analogue feeds.

 

[Anonymous]

Hughes123:
I don't think you'd need anything too impressive, just a nice stereo power amp run from the pre-amp output of your receiver. This should do the duties very well, and leave plenty of space for pans and plates, etc: Click.

Edit: That amp is smaller in real life, than on screen! It's 10cm in width!

Nice idea, but I think it might be desirable to choose an amp with a separate volume control.

 

[tommyb]

considering the speakers being used - what would be a sensible suggestion of a power amp then?

 

[Andrew Everard]

Something like this would be a good choice - and would also give you local volume control in your second 'zone'

 

[Juzzie Wuzzie]

tommyb:
So a Power amp is the way to go? thank you.

Will the 875 feed all my sources to the power amp via pre-outs, or, will it only feed analogue sources?

currently, my sky HD, Apple TV, Sony 350 all feed via HDMI or Optical. CD and SL1210 are analogue feeds.

Read the manual carefully as to answer your second question - my Onkyo 605 only feeds analogue sources to Zone 2 (when splitting it into 5.1 and 2.0 operation).

 

[tommyb]

I've been offered one of these for free: Technics SA EX-310 stereo / home cinema dolby pro-logic receiver

I've had a look for the specs and this is what i could find - I think these are its specs

http://www.hobbielektronika.hu/gyujtemeny/doksik/audio/panasonic%20sa-ex310.pdf

Technics SA EX-310 stereo / home cinema dolby pro-logic receiver

two questions:

1) will i be able to connect it to the the Onkyo's pre outs for zone 2?

2) will it be ok for the Quads? the Ohm ratings look different - Quads are 6ohms

Juzzie - yeah, read the manual and the 875 is the same - only sends analogue signals to zone 2 & 3 :-(

 

[nads]

why do you keep going on about the pre outs?

will you not be using the Zone 2 line level outs? Page 101 to 107 of the manual?

 

[tommyb]

i'm a bit of a noob at all this to be fair so not too sure of the difference

 

[tommyb]

The manual also calls them pre-outs.

So - would the technics be safe to connect to the 875 - I would imagine yes.

BUT - would it be safe to drive the Quads? if so - would the quality be ok?

I'll need like 20m of phono interconnect from 875 to zone 2