Denon AVR-4802 and External Digital Feeds for Zone 2



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Originally Posted by RKTC /forum/post/0


This may be a dumb question, but is it possible to play audio from an external DIGITAL fed source through Zone-2 on an AVR-4802?


I think I have read this before and I'm unsure how to interpreted the manual, but I have never been able to play audio from my PC via SPDIF to my 4802 on my Zone-2 speakers. I have the 7 channels split into Zone-1 (5.1) and Zone-2 (2 speakers). Any feeds originating from analog appear to be no problem. Only external digital feeds. The reason I ask is that I think based upon comments I have read that the 4806CI can accommodate this functionality.


Sorry, in advance, for the beginners question.


Thanks


RB

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I think that the digital signal must be either Dolby Digital or DTS and you must set the output to stereo or direct. At least, that what I interpretted from owners manual. It says it will downmix the DD/DTS to stereo. I have a 4802, but haven't tried doing this yet, but I'm thinking about giving it a try.

You probably googled this by now. But - the 4802 cannot play digital sources in multizone, only analog. Most sources have an analog out - and the 4802 has a million inputs. So, the way I get around this is running both analog and digital to the 4802. Then, I use a harmony remote to choose the source. That way you don't get confused by the sources. In other words, the DVD player digital out is assigned to "DVD" and the analog is assigned to "VCR-1". But the Harmony is programmed just to display "DVD" when I choose the source for multizone, so I don't have to remember the arbitrary assignment for the analog source.


I think some of the newer Denons now will decode digital and run it to the multizone, so they don't have this issue.