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Surround & Throughout House?
We're building a house and I'd appreciate any suggestions to help with
my goals: I want to purchase a system to use as the "main" system for the house *most* of the time. I would like to use this system as the surround system for the TV that we will watch most of the time also. I have wired my house for five (5) pair of additional speakers (wall or ceilings) throughout, and wired for volume controls on each. I won't neccesarily need to run all five-six pair at the same time, but it would be nice. Will it be possible to run five to six pair at the same time? I'm guessing I'll need to use some type on speaker selector box for this many outputs? I have not purchased speakers yet, either. I do currently own an older Harman Kardon 35/w per channel receiver that I can use somewhere. One of the rooms where I have a pair wired for will eventually be a gameroom/theater kinda room, where I plan to.... spend as much as possible one day while yet avoiding divorce. I think I can get away with about $500 on this "main" receiver/surround/amp and remain married. Ideas on receiver/speakers/controls???? Thanks in advance, Steve in Louisiana |
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Surround & Throughout House?
check this out.....or along these lines
http://www.bestpriceaudiovideo.com/p...ry=2537&Show=D multi room /multi source let the wife watch a chick flick while you watch a horror movie elsewhere there are also options for speaker selectors that can run multiple pairs http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tegory=14 994 this will allow you to run multiple pairs simultaneously from a single amp.... as far as in wall speakers....ubid.com always has deals http://www.ubid.com/cat/get_cat_page...D=3879&PgNum=1 the phoenix gold are nice. my brother in law just install a pair as surrounds.....very nice "Steve Blackwell" wrote in message om... We're building a house and I'd appreciate any suggestions to help with my goals: I want to purchase a system to use as the "main" system for the house *most* of the time. I would like to use this system as the surround system for the TV that we will watch most of the time also. I have wired my house for five (5) pair of additional speakers (wall or ceilings) throughout, and wired for volume controls on each. I won't neccesarily need to run all five-six pair at the same time, but it would be nice. Will it be possible to run five to six pair at the same time? I'm guessing I'll need to use some type on speaker selector box for this many outputs? I have not purchased speakers yet, either. I do currently own an older Harman Kardon 35/w per channel receiver that I can use somewhere. One of the rooms where I have a pair wired for will eventually be a gameroom/theater kinda room, where I plan to.... spend as much as possible one day while yet avoiding divorce. I think I can get away with about $500 on this "main" receiver/surround/amp and remain married. Ideas on receiver/speakers/controls???? Thanks in advance, Steve in Louisiana |
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" Sub Room Pre-Amp Outputs allows you to enjoy 5.1 surround in the
main room and 2 channel stereo in the sub room with the addition of an outboard amp." As I said, you really need additional amps to have satisfactory multiroom setups. Kal On Sun, 07 Mar 2004 04:35:09 GMT, "ReEfErMaDnEsS" wrote: check this out.....or along these lines http://www.bestpriceaudiovideo.com/p...ry=2537&Show=D multi room /multi source let the wife watch a chick flick while you watch a horror movie elsewhere there are also options for speaker selectors that can run multiple pairs http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tegory=14 994 this will allow you to run multiple pairs simultaneously from a single amp.... as far as in wall speakers....ubid.com always has deals http://www.ubid.com/cat/get_cat_page...D=3879&PgNum=1 the phoenix gold are nice. my brother in law just install a pair as surrounds.....very nice "Steve Blackwell" wrote in message . com... We're building a house and I'd appreciate any suggestions to help with my goals: I want to purchase a system to use as the "main" system for the house *most* of the time. I would like to use this system as the surround system for the TV that we will watch most of the time also. I have wired my house for five (5) pair of additional speakers (wall or ceilings) throughout, and wired for volume controls on each. I won't neccesarily need to run all five-six pair at the same time, but it would be nice. Will it be possible to run five to six pair at the same time? I'm guessing I'll need to use some type on speaker selector box for this many outputs? I have not purchased speakers yet, either. I do currently own an older Harman Kardon 35/w per channel receiver that I can use somewhere. One of the rooms where I have a pair wired for will eventually be a gameroom/theater kinda room, where I plan to.... spend as much as possible one day while yet avoiding divorce. I think I can get away with about $500 on this "main" receiver/surround/amp and remain married. Ideas on receiver/speakers/controls???? Thanks in advance, Steve in Louisiana |
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Thanks Kal and Reefer,
Kal: "As I said, you really need additional amps to have satisfactory multiroom setups." I've heard mention of additional amps... examples please?? Thanks, Steve |
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Kal advises that I will need multiple amps for multiple rooms... (and
I thank him for responding)... I visited one of the local shops yesterday and the salesperson advised there, that I could do multi-rooms (up to 5 pair in my case, probably in wall), using an amp with two zones (he was ready to sell me a Denon, 90wpc), with a speaker selector box. He advised that the selector box would maintain the impedence to the amp at 8 ohms, and was available with or without volume control for each set. I advised him that I had pre-wired for volume controls, and he said that the volume controls that he sold would maintain the the impedence on the amp therefore I would not need the selector box. He said that I would wire them daisy-chain (in a series?). What do you think? Can I power 2-5 pair of speakers adequetely and safely from one 2 or 3 zone amp using volume controls, wired to zone 2 and/or 3? For what it's worth, I'm leaning toward the Yamaha RX-V1400, (110 wpc at 8 ohms) (today, anyway.) Thanks in advance for your response, Steve |
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Well, if the box has resistors and wiring to maintain the load on the
amp, it will prevent the amp from blowing up and allow you to have some sound in all the rooms. Just do not count on having, in all/most of the rooms simultaneously, the quality you would get in one. Kal On 14 Mar 2004 11:45:25 -0800, (Steve Blackwell) wrote: Kal advises that I will need multiple amps for multiple rooms... (and I thank him for responding)... I visited one of the local shops yesterday and the salesperson advised there, that I could do multi-rooms (up to 5 pair in my case, probably in wall), using an amp with two zones (he was ready to sell me a Denon, 90wpc), with a speaker selector box. He advised that the selector box would maintain the impedence to the amp at 8 ohms, and was available with or without volume control for each set. I advised him that I had pre-wired for volume controls, and he said that the volume controls that he sold would maintain the the impedence on the amp therefore I would not need the selector box. He said that I would wire them daisy-chain (in a series?). What do you think? Can I power 2-5 pair of speakers adequetely and safely from one 2 or 3 zone amp using volume controls, wired to zone 2 and/or 3? For what it's worth, I'm leaning toward the Yamaha RX-V1400, (110 wpc at 8 ohms) (today, anyway.) Thanks in advance for your response, Steve |
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