Your questions have already been answered, I'd just like to add a few comments. Since you have prewired your house with speaker wire, you've planned to put your amp/all your amps in one location. Long speaker wires are likely to degrade the quality of your sound, and is likely to lower the ultimate sound level output of your amps/speakers. With wireless distribution of music you place the receiver and the amp in each room, and speaker wires can be short.
I'm hooking my Squeezebox Duet reveiver's analogue output to cheap integrated amps in each room. Since they are integrated amps, they come with volume control. I use T-amps, which output 2x15 watts, and I usually never run them above 7-10 watts. That's what I use in those rooms where I will listen to music more casually. The amps cost some 80 USD or so. I have a separate listening room, where I use a digital amplifier from Tact. The digital amp is hooked to the digital output of the Logitech receiver and all the D/A conversion takes place in the amp. Tact has integrated versions with volume control, all pre-amp functions built in, and even room correction (measuring the room's effect on sound, and adjusting the output accordingly). Tact claims that their amps are less sensitive to speaker wire length, so you could use their amps with your long wired solution. However, in all cases I use short speaker wires. -- dbrotzen ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dbrotzen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16218 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=58724 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
