Bartman -- Welcome to the forum! The 950 does include a second zone, which acts basically as a separate stereo pre-amp. It is in fact possible to have a 5.1 source (DVD, whatever) playing in the home theater and simultaneously have a separate stereo source (CD, tuner, whatever) playing in a game room or on a porch. In my system, I have a cheap wireless speaker that we cart outside when we're working in the yard so we can listen to the radio or to CD's.

As for the logistics of making it all work, the speaker wire you have in place is probably the biggest piece of the puzzle. You would need some sort of amplification for the game room. A pair of Model 200's would certainly do the job, but you could also use an old stereo amp of some sort -- eBay and Audiogon can be good sources for such gear, as can local audio shops selling stuff that was traded in or even pawn shops. Heck, you could even use your old receiver as an amp if you wanted to. It's not necessarily the most sophisticated approach, but it would work. Once you have amplification of some sort, the speaker cable that is already installed, and some speakers at the other end, you would need to make sure that any sources you wanted to use in the game room were connected to the 950 with stereo analog cables because unlike the 950's main system, the second zone does not convert digital sources to analog -- it requires an analog source to begin with. So while you would most likely connect a CD player to the 950 with a digital cable if the player supported it for the main system, you would also need to hook up the left and right channels from the CD player to the 950 for the sake of the second zone.

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