Anyone aware of what type of product(s) can take audio from a sound card and
split it to various speaker "pairs/zones". I want it so that software on
the PC can control which zones get the music

I found one thing that looks okay... http://www.hacs.com/ab8ss.html (of
course with my luck its out of stock). Even with that thing; I'm not sure
what type of amplifier I need.

Any advice/guidance is greatly appreciated.

Frank

Any multi-channel sound card with most any multi track software.
Layla24 - Sonar $1000
Delta1010 - Cubase $1000
RME - Nuendo $2500
Digi - Protools $6000

Wire each set of speakers to different outputs of sound card. It would be
nice to have 8 Crown CE1000's that would allow you to wire 8 sets of
speakers to them an extra $5000 unless you have powered speakers.
$6000-$11000 is that too high?

if it is you could try:

For approx. $19.99 you could go to Radio Shack and get a "Speaker control
center" it will allow 4 sets of speakers to be switched off on or blend some
of them together. You have to push the buttons your self it is not computer
controlled. Don't know of any computer switch other than multi-channel
sound cards.
Max Arwood


"Frank A" wrote in message
et...
Anyone aware of what type of product(s) can take audio from a sound card
and
split it to various speaker "pairs/zones". I want it so that software on
the PC can control which zones get the music

I found one thing that looks okay... http://www.hacs.com/ab8ss.html (of
course with my luck its out of stock). Even with that thing; I'm not sure
what type of amplifier I need.

Any advice/guidance is greatly appreciated.

Frank

"Max Arwood" wrote in message
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Any multi-channel sound card with most any multi track software.
Layla24 - Sonar $1000
Delta1010 - Cubase $1000
RME - Nuendo $2500
Digi - Protools $6000

Wire each set of speakers to different outputs of sound card. It would be
nice to have 8 Crown CE1000's that would allow you to wire 8 sets of
speakers to them an extra $5000 unless you have powered speakers.
$6000-$11000 is that too high?

if it is you could try:

For approx. $19.99 you could go to Radio Shack and get a "Speaker control
center" it will allow 4 sets of speakers to be switched off on or blend
some
of them together. You have to push the buttons your self it is not
computer
controlled. Don't know of any computer switch other than multi-channel
sound cards.
Max Arwood


I'm looking for something in the $250.00 price range :-(

What do you think about the item http://www.hacs.com/ab8ss.html ?

Frank

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Anyone aware of what type of product(s) can take audio from a sound card and
split it to various speaker "pairs/zones". I want it so that software on
the PC can control which zones get the music

What's the budget and the application? This is a fairly common job in
the "installed sound" market but the hardware tends to be fairly
expensive since it's designed to be operated by non-engineers once
it's set up.

If all you want to do is switch the computer output to various
speakers, you can do that with a simple speaker switch. Check your
Radio Shack. If it's more complicated than that, like you have both
music and speech (like paging or announcements) and you want speech
everywhere but music some places but not others, then you'll need what
amounts to a mixer with multiple outputs.



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writes:

Anyone aware of what type of product(s) can take audio from a sound card
and
split it to various speaker "pairs/zones". I want it so that software
on
the PC can control which zones get the music

What's the budget and the application? This is a fairly common job in
the "installed sound" market but the hardware tends to be fairly
expensive since it's designed to be operated by non-engineers once
it's set up.

If all you want to do is switch the computer output to various
speakers, you can do that with a simple speaker switch. Check your
Radio Shack. If it's more complicated than that, like you have both
music and speech (like paging or announcements) and you want speech
everywhere but music some places but not others, then you'll need what
amounts to a mixer with multiple outputs.


My budget for the switch is in the $250 dollar range... plus cost of a
simple amplifier. My end goal is to write some software to control my music
from my PC. In the end all I want is for the software, which I will write,
to be able to do "play song X in room(s): Bedroom & Bathroom". Its the in
bedroom and bathroom part I'm not sure how to do (while on a budget).

Thanks,
Frank

"Frank A" wrote:

Anyone aware of what type of product(s) can take audio from a sound card and
split it to various speaker "pairs/zones". I want it so that software on
the PC can control which zones get the music

I found one thing that looks okay... http://www.hacs.com/ab8ss.html (of
course with my luck its out of stock). Even with that thing; I'm not sure
what type of amplifier I need.

You won't find this off the shelf with binding posts marked "speaker 1" and
"speaker 2"

You want a computer controlled switching arangement and you'll have to do
some work yourself.

a Google for "computer controlled switch" has lots of hits. here's a good
start:
http://www.maplin.co.uk/noframes/37769.htm

"Frank A" wrote:

Anyone aware of what type of product(s) can take audio from a sound card and
split it to various speaker "pairs/zones". I want it so that software on
the PC can control which zones get the music

I found one thing that looks okay... http://www.hacs.com/ab8ss.html (of
course with my luck its out of stock). Even with that thing; I'm not sure
what type of amplifier I need.

You won't find this off the shelf with binding posts marked "speaker 1" and
"speaker 2"

You want a computer controlled switching arangement and you'll have to do
some work yourself.

a Google for "computer controlled switch" has lots of hits. here's a good
start:
http://www.maplin.co.uk/noframes/37769.htm