Music in the "other" room(s)
Posted by: Mike in PA, USA on 26 January 2004
Any suggestions or thoughts on providing music in other rooms? What are those out there doing? Obviously, I don't want to hinder the performance of the main system. I have thought of a couple options, but there may be others:
1) Seperate system in other room - Fun to build the system, but expensive and must stop music in room A to continue same disc in room B.
2) Speaker switch box - A high quality model is used, this may be okay, as long as all rooms aren't going full volume at once. This is what my dealer recommends.
3) Use a tape or pre-out into a seperate amp to drive speakers in additional rooms - I haven't heard much about this option, but if possible, it intrgues me.
-Mike
Posted on: 26 January 2004 by Linds
Wireless options
Surely with the various 802.11 PC wireless networking and other stuff, it can only be a matter of short time before a reasonably economical wireless solution is made available.
This would in my ideal little world allow the line level signal to be transmitted from source in one room to amp in another, thereby ridding the need to run CAT 5 or bloody interconnects around the house.
!!! There's always money somewhere for the next upgrade... !!!
Posted on: 26 January 2004 by blythe
I run a NAP 140 that feeds, via a decent quality speaker swicher box, the speakers in the other rooms. I control the CD player and preamp from those rooms using a remote extender system, in my case a Xantech Hidden Link setup which works over the distances involved in my setup[PowerMids and the like won't operate over the distances I have] although it does need to be "hard wired" - then again, so do the speakers....
So, although all speakers are at the same level, i find it's a decent solution for me. If I don't want sound in the dining room, I just switch off those speakers (the switch box is close to my source)
Any questions, feel free to ask.
Martin.
Computers are supposed to work on 1's and 0's - in other words "Yes" or "No" - why does mine frequently say "Maybe"?......
Posted on: 26 January 2004 by Wolf
I did it the cheap way. I have a 1 bedroom apt. and the bedroom is on the wall my stereo gear is on. My dealer spliced in a second equal length naca5 so each right side is powering two speakers, the larger ones in my living room and smaller ones in my bedroom. I have Spendor speakers and they are very efficient and I have not heard any problems. Late at night when I can't sleep and don't want to distrub my neighbor I just unhook one jack from each of the living room speakers, to shut them off, and listen to music. That usually puts me to sleep in one CD. Tho I worry about ruining the puck keeping it on the spindle so long, it's worth it.
Life is analogue
Posted on: 27 January 2004 by sideshowbob
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3) Use a tape or pre-out into a seperate amp to drive speakers in additional rooms - I haven't heard much about this option, but if possible, it intrgues me.
That's what I do. Tape-out on the main system goes, via a long IC, into a line-in in the bedroom system (42.5/110), the tape out in this setup in turn is connected to a line-in on an Onix OA22 integrated in the kitchen, which in turn has a tape-out connection to a Tivoli PAL in the bathroom (my flat is perfectly laid out for this kind of arrangment). Means I have separate volume and on-off control in every room (the tape-outs on all the amps are passive, so they pass signal even when the amp is switched off), and no need to buy separate sources for each room.
Next thing is to add a remote extender so I can control the CDP from the bath...
-- Ian
Posted on: 27 January 2004 by prowla
Linn do all that Knekt stuff and B&O do things.
Personally I've never been quite sure about the every room and all the corridors in between philosophy.
I often play MP3s on my PC here in my office (though I have got a CD3.5/62/140/Kans waiting to be set up - just haven't got around to it).
Paul Rowlands
