Hi Guys,

Can I hook up the 950/770 with 5.1 in the living room and then use the extra two channels on the 770 amp for the second zone of the 950 in another room??????

Sure you Can.

Yes, I don't know offhand how to do it, but it is in the manual. A lot of it is hooking up to the right channels on the 950.

Just run a set of interconnects from the zone 2 output on the back of the 950 to the open inputs on the 770, then run speaker cable from the available outputs to the second zone speakers.

highdraw is correct. I went one step further and placed a speaker selector switch in the path so that I can run back speakers in a 7.1 configuration or I can run a zone two in another area. To do this I also had to use an external input selector for the 950. This summer I plan on just buying 2 mono blocks to free up the 770 for just 7.1 playback.