I want to channel music all around my new house, what is the best/simplest way to do it?

Question

I want to channel music all around my new house, what is the best/simplest way to do it?

Answer 1

Get a home theatre system in-a-box system with no less than 5 speakers and a subwoofer.

Upon setting you, sensibly put the speakers on their respective location (cause some just simply place all 5 satellites at the front when there are two rear speakers for surround effect, so these people looking for front reverberating surrounds??). Its best that all speakers are placed higher than your hearing level, but not too close to the ceiling.

The subwoofer? Place it away from any other electronic devices and close to walls. If you hate excessive bass, then maybe in the centre of the room?

If you planned to open all windows and doors, you must be insane. Most theatre system have been designed for enclosed area. But for me, I always ensure at least a window is open to ensure I do not go deaf from maximum sound intensity from the speaker system in term of decibels...

Answer 2

The best way to do it depends on what you want to listen to and at what volume. Look into A-Bus, Niles ICS and Netstreams. These are 3 distributed audio systems that get progressively more expensive and gain more capabilities.

At a basic level the system gives you sound in other rooms. As you go more expensive you gain features like Volume control in that zone, independant sources between zones, greater power, metadata, source control, distributed video and so forth. A new distributed audio standard is being release later this year by Linear (Niles, Xantech, Speakercraft) that allows distribution through Cat5e and amplification in the keypad of about 50 Watts. This looks to be a great medium priced D/A system.

Answer 3

Turn up the volume and open all the doors is the simplest way.

Answer 4

it depends, do you want to listen to the same thing in every room, or different sources in each room.

for the same thing in all rooms, easiest way is to get a multi speaker selector and run all of your speakers to the the selector.  make sure you have a strong amp if you are driving a lot of speakers.

if you want different sources in each room, then you will need  a receiver that i capable of sending multiple signals (multi source output).

good luck

Answer 5

You need an Amp with multi-channel o/p. You might want to consider a wireless system or you could go with a 'data over mains' system to save yourself the hassle of routing all that cable throught your house.

The data over mains system would mean that the audio signal would have to be converted to a digital stream, be superimposed on the electrical wiring in your home and converted back to audio in each room by a special DAC and an amp. EXPENSIVE.......

Check out how they do it it big factories or in supermarkets. Maybe some sort of PA system would do, but don't think the audio quality would be that good.

Best of luck

Answer 6

put your music source in one location ie broom room

your sources are 1.tv 2 radio3.mp3 4.cd.ect.....

then the out puts go in a mixer unit ie a cloud 6:4

6 inputs

4 ouputs (rooms)

so you can now control 6 inputs and vol

next you buy 4 remotes that only need alarm cable to each point look on cloud web site

if you need any more advice onthis and other ways to do it mail me at [e-mail] mike