Anyone owned or has a Marantz sr5001?

whgarrett1394

I am trying to utilize my multi room pre outs and hook up another system in a couple rooms. I can't get it to work. Do I need a pre amp for that signal or can i hook up the rca's straight to a power amp? Pretty sure the Marantz can control the volume for
the multi room signal cause it asks you source and the asks you about volume. The manual is confusing. I think in one section it says you can only use multi room if you have another MARANTZ amp and remote. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks. Wade

unc2701

I've got a 7001... maybe? Whatever their almost latest is.

1)You do not need a marantz amp for that, any power amp will do
2)You need to turn on the zone and turn up the volume. You *might* need a second marantz remote for that. On mine there's a zone select button, which kicks the volume control over to zone 2 (or 3) for about 5 seconds. But I know on some older gear, they made you use a separate remote... but a universal remote should have codes for zone 2, so look into that.

unc2701

OK, page 32 here:
http://us.marantz.com/DocumentMaster/US/DFU_SR4001_SR5001_Final_eng.pdf

You can use it with or without a pre amp (fixed=with, variable=without); you'll need to activate it and set the source. The other thing that might be **** you up: it will NOT output a digital source. So if you have a DVD or CD player hooked up with optical/coax digital, you need to run analog/RCA cables, too, for it to output in the zone 2.

whgarrett1394

Thank you for the reply. My unit does not use the term "zones" but I know what corresponds on my sr5001. That digital source
IN may be the problem. I have only been using HDMI as source. I will try and use an analog IN so that it matches the analog
OUT. Thanks again. Will let you know how that works.

whgarrett1394

Thank you, unc2701! That is exactly what was wrong. Now knowing I can control a second zone, I am going to purchase the
Emotiva upa-700 instead of the upa-500. I will use the extra two channels for this second zone. That along with a switcher and i
can power the rest of the house/outside.

unc2701

No problem. I've run into the same issue a few times. I don't know of any pre-/pros or receivers that will output digital sources on analog zone 2 outputs. One of the reasons that I got the Marantz I have is that it has an HDMI zone 2... BUT it won't output analog inputs on that zone 2 HDMI- only ones that come in as HDMI.

Anyhow, enjoy the tunes.