Zone problems

[farbs]

Hi Guys,
I seem to be having an issue with multi zone.
Mainly the master zone bleeding into the the other zones. Zone 2 and 3 are ok if there is noting playing in zone 1. They don't bleed into the other channels just the master into the other ones.
i am using Jriver and net remote 2.
I am using the onboard sound of my mother board. Does anyone here (multi zone Experts) have any Ideas. I have tried every configuration but it still seems to come through?
I have also done a serch on the jriver forums but can't seem to find any answers. Any help would greatly be apprciated. As We are renovating next year and am planning on about 4-5 zones of audio but would like to sort it all out first.

[rpalmer68]

I run two sometimes three zones with JRMC 12 and haven't noticed this problem, but I'm using an m-audio Delta 1010LT card not onboard sound hardware.

What onboard sound has three distinct stereo outputs?

If you playback using JRMC on it's own (shut down anything else running you don't need) do you still get "bleed"?

What version of JRMC are you running?

Richard

[Mastiff]

The problem is neither JRMC or NetRemote, it's your onboard sound card. None of the onboard sound cards I have tried works correctly with multi-zone, so I have one sound card per zone instead. Saves me a heap of trouble. Get a few different Audigy/Audigy 2/Sound Blaster Live! cards in addition to the onboard stuff, or even a few cheap (if the sound quality isn't all that important) or more expensive USB sound cards.

[Promixis]

I have the maudio firewire 410 and it is excellent. 4 MC zones into a Russound system.

[farbs]

Thanks for the replies!
I kind of guessed that it might be the onboard sound.
Now Unfortunately my system (mother board) doesn't support firewire.
Would an external usb multi channel sound card work?

Maybe something like this

http://www.soundblaster.com/products/product.asp?category=1&subcategory=205&product=9103&nav=1

I would eventually love to todo the russound thing but would like to get it working nicely first.

[rpalmer68]

Can you fit a PCI card in your machine?

If so I'd suggest something like in the m-audio (www.m-audio.com (http://www.m-audio.com)) range, as I mentioned I have the Delta 1010LT and it's great and was easy to setup with JRMC.

I got it off ebay a while back for a good price, so that's an opton.

Richard

[Promixis]

Either MAudio device will work great :D

[Mastiff]

Everything depends on your demands. If you're satisfied with onboard audio, I'm sure a relatively cheap USB sound card (say 50-75 dollars) would be good enough for you. M-Audio is in a totally different segment, and you need the amp and speakers to match if you want to get anything meaningful out of the extra money.

[farbs]

Well I went out and bought a sound card (PCI).
I am now able to play different zones, but still a few issues.
The master zone is assigned to the sound card. Audigy.
Zone 2 and 3 to the motherboard sound.
When i just try to use the sound card for the zones Zone 2 comes out all crackly and fuzzy, quite horrible really, so while it is working using the two, is it possible to just use the sound card, or is the idea to actually use multiple cards, or am I just missing something in the setup of it all?
By the way thanks for the help so far!