I am nearing the end of an extensive house remodel that includes creating a dedicated 'media closet' with speaker wires and CAT6 running to every room. But so far, I still do not know the best way to create a true 'multi-room, multi-source' solution.
Ideally, I am looking for something that can provide a distributed 4 source x 6 zone PREAMP ONLY function with remote keypads. But so far, most of the systems I have looked at are trying to do everything (music server, switched pre-amp, and multi-zone amplifier). So I am hoping some of you experts on this forum can help me find a solution. Here are my main objectives/requirements: 1. Able to support 6 different listening rooms. 2. Each room can listen to different music or all rooms can play the same 3. Able to easily mute *all* audio (e.g. phone rings, doorbell) without have to run to each room to adjust volume 4. Squeezebox(es) will be the device to access music from hard drives. 5. I will provide the amplification using stand-alone amplifiers 6. Should be able to control volumes from remotes, iTouch or PC. 7. But, also nice to have wall keypads in each room for volume and system mute -- i.e. able to adjust volume if the remote can not be quickly found. 8. Some way to ensure outdoor speakers only play when we are outdoors (i.e. don't want the speakers kicking in at night when no one is there) and ideally automatically goes into a mute state in case we forget to turn off the volume. Thanks for any suggestions or ideas. -- Craig p.s. so far, the best I have come up with is 6 Duets and 6 Audiosource AMP-100 amplifiers. For the outdoor speaker, add one of those 'timer switches' that you twist to set the amount of time and then it automatically ticks back to off. But, I hope there is something a bit more elegant. -- rcstevensonaz ------------------------------------------------------------------------ rcstevensonaz's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7419 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=66737 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
