Re: [slim] WTD: Recommendations for speakers and power for SB3 in Kitchen

2007-05-05 Thread Peter
CatBus wrote: > I have an SB3 in my kitchen, FWIW. But my approach is "budget". > > It will be very easy to overkill on a project like this--consider that > the kitchen is likely to be a room that's acoustically horrible (e.g. > tile floors...) even when quiet. And with cooking, dishwasher, > mic

Re: [slim] WTD: Recommendations for speakers and power for SB3 in Kitchen

2007-04-30 Thread Squirrel
I have an SB3 sat on top of the kitchen units, cables running through the wall to the server room (which conveniently backs onto the kitchen). I've fitted a pair of APart 8" co-axial speakers into the ceiling which run off a Kenwood KA-3020SE amplifier (which was sitting in the pile of unused kit)

Re: [slim] WTD: Recommendations for speakers and power for SB3 in Kitchen

2007-04-30 Thread shadowboxer
ds2021;198656 Wrote: > In my kitchen, I put an SB3 and Audioengine A5 speakers. The sound > quality of this combination is exceptional. As the A5s are small, they > would occupy no more space than a typical subwoofer. They sit on top of > the upper cabinets along with the SB3. Although the kitche

Re: [slim] WTD: Recommendations for speakers and power for SB3 in Kitchen

2007-04-30 Thread ds2021
In my kitchen, I put an SB3 and Audioengine A5 speakers. The sound quality of this combination is exceptional. As the A5s are small, they would occupy no more space than a typical subwoofer. They sit on top of the upper cabinets along with the SB3. Although the kitchen is not the ideal location to

Re: [slim] WTD: Recommendations for speakers and power for SB3 in Kitchen

2007-04-30 Thread CatBus
I have an SB3 in my kitchen, FWIW. But my approach is "budget". It will be very easy to overkill on a project like this--consider that the kitchen is likely to be a room that's acoustically horrible (e.g. tile floors...) even when quiet. And with cooking, dishwasher, microwave, running water an

Re: [slim] WTD: Recommendations for speakers and power for SB3 in Kitchen

2007-04-29 Thread Mark Lanctot
I've never heard good things about in-wall/in-ceiling speakers. They are expensive, inflexible and don't sound very good. It would probably be a better idea to put in a cable run and use bookshelf speakers on wall mounts. Then again, I've never done this before. I'm just going from what I have

[slim] WTD: Recommendations for speakers and power for SB3 in Kitchen

2007-04-29 Thread kennyschiff
I am renovating my kitchen (about 15' x 22') and right now it's stripped to bare walls. I want to put in speakers and some sort of amplification/power that will attached to a Squeezebox that I intend on installing in there. I am thinking 4 in ceiling speakers and a sub woofer, but can be convince