619hudson wrote: > Caveats: > > 1. I am a newby > 2. Apologies in advance if I have missed a priro post answering this > question. > > I recently renovated an old house and ran in-wall speaker cables from a > basement closet to every room in the house with the expectation of > someday installing a whole house music system. > > I recently purchased the squeezebox duet and have used it with my old > stereo receiver and bookshelf speakers to get comfortable with it. > > I am now ready to start installing some of the whole house system but > would like to move up the learning curve without making a lot of > purchasing mistakes. > > Among the questions in my mind are: > > 1. Do I need a pre-amp in between my Duet and the amplifier? >
No. > 2. Do I need a separate pre-amp, Duet for each zone? > Not really. But you might want a SB Receiver for each zone if you want to be able to play different music in different rooms at the same time. > 3. How do I make sure I don't blow my amp by putting too many speakers > on it. > Buy one amp per set of speakers? > These are really basic questions and I feel that there is probably some > resource out there for basic home stero layout design but I have been > unable to access it thru google search. Can someone steer me in the > right direction. A good book or website would be appreciated. By way of > level of technical detail I can say I found the multi room info at > Crutchfield to be lacking. > > It's a matter of personal preference but if I were in your shoes (house), I'd put one receivers and amp in the closet for each room, I'd use ethernet cables to connect the SBR's to a network switch. I'd put a (Linux) server in the closet to run SqueezeCenter on and do lots of other things. I'd use X10 switch to turn the amps on/off with something like the bottlerocket plugin. Add one or more wireless access points to get wifi coverage for the controllers. Then, I'd buy as many SB Controllers or iPod touches or whatever way you like to control SqueezeCenter. That's what I'd do. Regards, Peter _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
