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Niles ZR-8630AV AV Receiver

Great for Audio distribution.

Crutchfield says:

Putting a multi-room entertainment system in your home? Niles’ sensible line of MultiZone products are designed for intuitive operation, great sound, and flexible system building.

The heart of a Niles MultiZone system is a receiver like the ZR-8630AV. With twelve channels of clean amplification, this capable receiver can drive stereo speakers in up to six different rooms. The “AV” in its name stands for audio and video — it can also distribute video signals from sources such as a DVD player and satellite TV tuner to TVs in any or all of your playback rooms.
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One advantage of a Niles MultiZone system is that all your components can stay hidden in a closet or another out-of-the-way location, while users can control playback in each room with a decor-friendly, in-wall Intellipad Ci keypad or touchscreen (required, sold separately). Plus, the ZR-8630AV stores all the remote codes from your connected components in its own built-in memory, so rather than having to program the codes into each keypad independently, you can just program the receiver once — a big time-saver when it comes to installation…more