Hi All, I am looking to take my home system up a notch and I am seeking opinions. My system currently runs very smooth and consists of:
An older Dell PowerEdge Server running Windows 8.1 Pro, a 2.53 GHz Celeron, and 2.00 GB of ram. A Netgear R7000 with the 2.4 GHz band dedicated to the home system. 14 Squeezebox Radios (4) of them connected to 4 Sunfire DS-8 Self Powered Subwoofers (9) standalones (4 of them setup as 2 stereo pairs) (1) powering a pair of Audioengine5's A Nexus 7 2013 on a dock running "Squeeze Control" 36,989 tracks, 2760 Albums Currently 40 to 75 VBR WMA (Soon to change to a Flac Library) My question is this. I am looking to place 3 sets of powered speakers in three places around the house. These would be ideally located for the layout of the home and I think it would be a nice improvement. The self powered speakers I am looking a purchasing are the KEF X300A's. I would plug them directly into the 1/8 inch output jacks of 3 of the radio's. This configuration change would even allow me to tuck 1 radio away as a spare. Am I on target thinking the output of the Squeezebox Radio's would justify the expense of the KEF X300A's or would there be no discernible difference if I just went with 2 more sets of Audioengine5's? I am going to convert my WMA Lossless library to Flac and start using it soon so that part of the signal would be top notch. "Again, is the signal coming from Squeezebox Radios good enough to justify the KEF X300A's?" I know as an option I could just go with traditional stereos and Squeezebox Touch's but I like being able to turn the whole system on and off from any location in the house. Thanks to everyone for their invaluable opinions. Scott ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Scott Crawford's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=63436 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103007 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
