Multiple BT headphones, wireless rear speakers?

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I'm looking to upgrade from my ~15 year old Denon to something new, mostly to simplify the setup and cables - to eliminate separate HDMI switch, optical audio cable, analog wireless headphones. There are a couple of features that I'm looking for that's hard to find a straight answer on in spec sheets:

1. I have a Senheiser wireless headphone setup that just plugs into the headphone out on my old receiver, with two sets of headphones, so my wife and I can watch movies at night while the kids are sleeping. I'd like to replace that with something that connects over BT directly to the receiver, but I can't figure out whether any receiver can broadcast to multiple headphones, or is one all I'd have?

2. I have a wired set of front/center/sub speakers, and no easy way of getting wires to rear speakers, so I simply don't have any right now... However, I'd like to hook up a pair if I can do a wireless rear + wired front combo setup through a receiver. I see new Denons can wirelessly stream to multiple rooms and such, but nowhere can I see it specifically say that it could wirelessly send to just rear speakers. Is that possible, or would I still need some kind of an external wireless adapter like I would now with my old receiver?

Thanks for any tips!
 
The only conventional AV receivers to facilitate wireless surrounds are those made by Yamaha and they'd require that the speakers to be used as surround be MusicCast speakers as opposed to Bluetooth:




Denon do make a more specialised receiver that can be used with their HEOS wireless speakers, but this is rather expensive and less well specofied wit other features when compared to what else you could buy for similar money:





Most if not all of Yamaha's current models and most of their MusicCast enabled models that preceeded them will fascilitate the use of Bluetooth headphones. You'd be limited to conveying a signal to one pair at a time though.

The most recent Denon models also include support for Bluetooth headphobes, but would also be limited to one pair at a time.
 

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