upstatemike
Senior Member
I was just updating myself on the Russound's Alexa integration and newly updated wall screens and it struck me that they no longer offer any options for separate multi-room controllers and amps. There are a lot of situations where I would need a special amp to drive the load in a given room or need to insert something to mix or override the preamp output in automation situations. With Russound it looks like the only way to do that is to buy a combo controller plus amp and then use the pre-amp out and waste the built-in amp in zones where you don't need it (pretty much all zones in my case). I know I can get around this by using speaker level switching instead of pre-amp switching but if i want to duck the program and mix an announcement over it I have to have access to the link between the amp and pre-amp.
Is there really no market for separate controllers and amps? (If so somebody should tell HTD since that is all they make) or was there some other reason offered back whenever Russound made this change?
Is there really no market for separate controllers and amps? (If so somebody should tell HTD since that is all they make) or was there some other reason offered back whenever Russound made this change?