Hello, I am trying to set things up so that I can have independent volume control for a pair of in-wall speakers in a room that's separate from my main listening area.
With my current set up, I have a Home Theater receiver that I just use for watching movies, and a stereo integrated amplifier that I have all of my 2-channel sources connected to. The integrated amp has a bypass so I can use my main speakers for both stereo listening and for the Front L/R channels when watching movies.
For the in-wall speakers in the other room, I have them connected to a secondary integrated amp, and I have the fixed line out of my main integrated amp going to the secondary integrated. I figured this would be a great solution, but I'm getting distortion issues when I have the secondary integrated in 'standby' and just want to listen in the main room. Apparently when the secondary integrated amp is in standby the analog inputs are probably put in some kind of state where they are affecting the signal at the main integrated amp (via the fixed line out).
I could control the in-wall speakers using zone 2 on the HT receiver, but then I'd have to use the HT receiver for connecting my 2-channel audio sources and I was trying to avoid that.
What would be a good solution for being able to independently control the volume of the in-wall speaker in the other room if I want to keep my -channel sources connected to the integrated amp (and not to the HT receiver)?
Thank you,
Greg