Hiya, I too live in England and put a SB3 in my (large'ish) conservatory, although I have carpet. I mounted a pair of Boise 2.2 speakers over the door from the house(on speaker mounts) and tied them to a very, very inexpensive Sonic Impact Portable T-amp (Ebay). Wires routed up and over the door. Amp was wonderful at 15 watts for a low to reasonable listening levels (loud, but not Hard Rock Loud!). Mounting and wiring was unobtrusive. Speakers were only OK. They went un-noticed if not playing and were out of the way.
I then used AEGIS EVO THREEs floor standing speakers on either side of the door tied to a pair of Outlaw M2200 power Amps. (Very nicely these amplifiers switch on and off with the music. The SB3 remote works everything, the rest is out of sight if you want.) Wires routed underneath the door's threshold for a very clean installation. This system was noticed though! Speakers were really, really great, amplifier sounded perfect but was probably too powerful. (I used the SB3's attenuation at some risk. Far better to buy failsafe attenuators. Basically I never had the volume up enough to be a problem if the attenuators were missing. I more needed reasonable volume steps at the low end.) I strongly recommend 85Mps Homeplugs from Solwise to get the ethernet to stream reliably. (Wireless doesn't do well in our strongly build UK homes.) Once I had these, the system never let me down in 2 years. I have a lot of them... :-)) If I did it again on a budget, I'd consider two Sonic-Ts bi-amped with the AE3s, or their later more powerful siblings. My philosophy is Speakers are forever, amps are Transient... Dennis in the UK -- dennisd ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dennisd's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4945 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29665 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
