MarkBennett wrote: > > Yep, all of this is already in the plans, although the Touches will be > distributed along with local amps rather than in a central cabinet. :)
I do not own the house, but was involved into multiple planning projects done by friends. Having relatively big apartment and having all my equipment distributed across all rooms I would do it differently for my place if I would do it again and from scratch. The distribution of the equipment is nice in term of virtual flexibility, and has some associated constrains. In my current plans I consider to move most of my equipment into the locked from the eyes cabinet where equipment is very centralized. Most of modern amplified support network based management and you do not need to have IR remotes laying everywhere. The only thing you would need to care across all rooms would be the cabling for speakers the rest somewhere in the basement easy to manage and replace. Rooms will be much cleaner from the equipment boxes. Even if you decide to nave Logitech for a while think about the case: how many independent tracks you are going to listen across all rooms? Would it be the case that each room has own music? What rooms have to be independent for whatever cost? Would this system be able to support such load (on the server side)? Would it be fine to have management capability available via tablet? If the answer would be "most my rooms will be in sync mode" (for me this is most likely scenario) than I would go for less devices like Touch, and by having them centralized you can leverage the power of centralizations. There are multiple amplifies on the market supporting 9.1/2+ modes and they also have 2-3 rooms set-up capabilities. You will have just 3-4 amplifiers in the list instead of 12. And this would be the same for touches you would need to have 3-4 instead of 12 in each room. I would go for solution comparison with all pros and cons including the cost factor. Or simply might consider looking towards the professional sound distribution solutions direction where the offering is even richer. By moving into the central cabined solution you will have full flexibility to have as many amplifiers and music distribution systems as you need. Expansion / change will be less painful as if you have all rooms separated. In case of distributed solution, by having some devices failing you will start losing rooms with no possibility to resolve/fix it easily without replacing the whole system. For me this is one of the decisive questions to answer before making a decision. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AndreE's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=30476 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96188
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