lomarica
07-31-2007, 09:10 PM
my friend is building a large custom house and wants about 20 pairs of speakers to play the same source throughout the very large house. I am the "audio" friend giving advice but this is a out of my league so I am asking the group for advice.
She has her first bid but the source is a $400 Yamaha receiver hooked up to two speaker switcher boxes, one box has 8 speaker outputs and the other 4 speaker outputs. While this does not equal the desired number of speakers I am thinking a bigger problem is the receiver will not drive all the speakers at the same time.
The speakers will be in the ceilings with a volume control in each room and will be mainly for background music. There will be a separate volume control in each room.
I have an old luxman 100w integrated amp hooked up to a 6 speaker switcher box driving 3 sets of speaker which work fine so that is my only reference point.
Any advice is appreciated. Also there will be a separate stand alone home theater room so that is not an issue. I am recommending a separate circuit breaker, for the main components, a fan for ventilation as the components will be under the stairs, a HD DVD player which the home theater bid did not include anything else to consider what about wiring for computer or is it better to go wireless
I wish I had this challenge at my place maybe next year
thanks
She has her first bid but the source is a $400 Yamaha receiver hooked up to two speaker switcher boxes, one box has 8 speaker outputs and the other 4 speaker outputs. While this does not equal the desired number of speakers I am thinking a bigger problem is the receiver will not drive all the speakers at the same time.
The speakers will be in the ceilings with a volume control in each room and will be mainly for background music. There will be a separate volume control in each room.
I have an old luxman 100w integrated amp hooked up to a 6 speaker switcher box driving 3 sets of speaker which work fine so that is my only reference point.
Any advice is appreciated. Also there will be a separate stand alone home theater room so that is not an issue. I am recommending a separate circuit breaker, for the main components, a fan for ventilation as the components will be under the stairs, a HD DVD player which the home theater bid did not include anything else to consider what about wiring for computer or is it better to go wireless
I wish I had this challenge at my place maybe next year
thanks