I have an elderly friend who is wheelchair-bound, has one arm and is visually impaired. This sounds like the lead-in to a bad joke in a bar, but it's not. He wants to be able to port music and maybe football game sound from his living room receiver, to an amplified speaker out on his covered "smoking porch", maybe 35-40 feet away. I bought him a bluetooth speaker, but due to the distance and passing through a wall, bluetooth reception is too iffy. The bluetooth speaker does have an AUX input, and could be located on a table convenient to him on the porch, so he could turn it on/off & adjust the volume, without assistance.
His receiver has some restrictions regarding what inputs cannot be fed out the Zone 2 line out connection, including HDMI inputs! Crazy, I know. I want the arrangement to be such that it's most convenient for him, given his impairments...Highest audio quality is not a primary consideration.
I could get around the Zone 2 restrictions by tapping into his receiver's left and right speaker output connections, and using a two-channel speaker-level-to-line level adapter. There are two ways to work this: (A) connect the adapter onto his front L & R speaker terminals, and buy a 50-foot roll of 4 conductor shielded cable, terminating at the amplified speaker's 3.5 mm AUX input...or, (B) parallel his front L & R speaker terminals with two pair of speaker wires (say, 14 gauge zipcord) running out to his "smoking porch", and there connect the speaker level-to-line-level adapter. This would make the long run at a much higher voltage level, but un-shielded. All educated opinions are welcome. Thanks much! Jack
His receiver has some restrictions regarding what inputs cannot be fed out the Zone 2 line out connection, including HDMI inputs! Crazy, I know. I want the arrangement to be such that it's most convenient for him, given his impairments...Highest audio quality is not a primary consideration.
I could get around the Zone 2 restrictions by tapping into his receiver's left and right speaker output connections, and using a two-channel speaker-level-to-line level adapter. There are two ways to work this: (A) connect the adapter onto his front L & R speaker terminals, and buy a 50-foot roll of 4 conductor shielded cable, terminating at the amplified speaker's 3.5 mm AUX input...or, (B) parallel his front L & R speaker terminals with two pair of speaker wires (say, 14 gauge zipcord) running out to his "smoking porch", and there connect the speaker level-to-line-level adapter. This would make the long run at a much higher voltage level, but un-shielded. All educated opinions are welcome. Thanks much! Jack
