Skunk;345944 Wrote: > One other thought though; if you have speakers in adjacent public rooms > (e.g. kitchen/dining), you can take advantage of the two sets (A/B or > A+B) of speaker outputs provided by the Audio Source amp, using only > one Squeezebox as source. They will probably never play unique music > anyway, and synchronization will be perfect.
This is similar to my approach, which was somewhat limited by the pre-existing wiring in my house: 16 gauge stranded copper stared out from the living room to the master bedroom, dining room/kitchen and library. I wanted one music source to feed the whole house, and I wanted that source to be in the library, not at the center of the wiring "star". This is what I came up with 10 years ago...only a couple of components have changed since then: For "serious" listening in the library: Transporter balanced out to ATI AT1502 stereo amp unbalanced in via a Jensen PC-2XR, feeding a pair of Magnepan MG3.5s via Kimber 8TC. This is about as "audiophile" as I cared to go at the time and I haven't seen fit to upgrade. For "not so serious" listening in the rest of the house: Same transporter (unbalanced out) feeding a second ATI AT1502 in the library to a Niles SVL-4 switcher at the center of the "star" in the living room. The Niles then feeds a pair of Magnepan MG 1.6/QRs in the living room; a pair of Celestron bookshelf speakers, wall mounted in the kitchen / dining room; a pair of Definitive Technology Pro Cinema bookshelf speakers, wall mounted in the master bed room. Not a single element here would be rated above audiophile entry level, and the bookshelf speakers don't even make that cut. But the Magnepans do most of the heavy lifting. This is a medium sized (3000sqft), open plan, multi-story house with an "Escher-esque" cantilevered stairway in a central atrium. The living room, MBR and library are all on different levels. There's a whole lot of reflective wood surface: floors and pitched roof ceilings. Having the smaller speakers strategically placed manages to turn the "rest of the house" listening experience from "hearing a cavernous echo emanating from the living room" into a fairly focused and surprisingly full sound pretty much anywhere in the house. I keep two SBCs (one in the MBR and one in the living room) to control everything. Oh yes, and a Boom for listening on the porch. -- gharris999 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gharris999's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=115 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53288 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
