Heos MultiRoom

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I got a Denon 3700h of yourselves. Im looking at multi-room Audio. Ive got 3 rooms downstairs that i would like to be able to have proper multiroom audio. If i get a single Denon DRA800H, can i drive the other 2 rooms (they are connected), using the zone 2 pre out on the denon to my existing yamaha stereo amp. I might also get a second set of the MA Studio. Then this 1 large L shaped room would have 2 sets of MA studios and 1 Denon DRA800H.

1 more question, is the second zone controllable from the app? I.E select on the app (rather than amp remote to play spotify etc on zone 2)

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aidankkk wrote: »

I got a Denon 3700h of yourselves. Im looking at multi-room Audio. Ive got 3 rooms downstairs that i would like to be able to have proper multiroom audio. If i get a single Denon DRA800H, can i drive the other 2 rooms (they are connected), using the zone 2 pre out on the denon to my existing yamaha stereo amp. I might also get a second set of the MA Studio. Then this 1 large L shaped room would have 2 sets of MA studios and 1 Denon DRA800H.

1 more question, is the second zone controllable from the app? I.E select on the app (rather than amp remote to play spotify etc on zone 2)

Hi AidanKKK.

The DRA800H is an excellent product and has been very popular.

It can connect via Zone 2 pre out to your current Yamaha amp. It is however limited to Analogue or digital source playback in Zone 2. (It would not play from Spotify to Zone 2).

From the Denon Manual:
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Playback in ZONE2[/font]

To be honest I'm not sure if the Heos app can control Zone 2 on the DRA800.
There is no mention of this in the manual and it is not something I have tried at our store as we don't have a setup like that in place for demo.

I'm not back to the store until Monday and I'll see if it is possible to setup and try out.