Multiple Zones on the Yamaha RX-V2400?

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"Kai Howells" <kai-usenet@rocketcat.info> wrote in message
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> How do you turn off/disable zones on the RX-V2400?
>
> Hi,
> I've got an RX-V2400 amp and was playing around with the zones - I wanted
> to run a small pair of speakers into the kitchen and the multi-zones
> looked ideal for this purpose. What I only found out after running the
> cable up in my ceiling and hooking it all up was that you can't route a
> digital source to zone 2 or zone 3. Kind of limited, hey?
> Having run the cable and mounted a pair of speakers (maybe I should have
> RTFM first =) I then hooked up the kitchen speakers to the Speakers B
> output. At least with this I can listen to a digital source in both rooms
> and, as I've assigned Speakers B to Zone B, if I turn off Speakers A, the
> amp is intelligent enough to turn off the sub as well.
>
> Anyway, my question after all that is: How can I turn off the zone
> functionality now that I'm not going to use it? If I turn on the amp from
> the power button on the front faceplate, it turns on zone 2 and 3. If I
> then turn it off from the remote, it only turns off zone 1, unless I then
> explicitly turn off zone 2 and 3.
> Also, when I power it on via the remote, it says MAIN Power On.
>
> All I want to be able to do is put it back to how it was, before it "knew"
> about zones - does anyone have any idea how?
>
> Cheers,
> Kai
>