I'm currently working to expand my current audio system to provide whole house coverage.
At the moment I have a fairly typical single room setup with some satellite speakers on the deck. Specifically, I have a Marantz SR5200 A/V Surround amplifier that drives five Athena Point5 speakers in my living room and two Polk Atrium 55 speakers on my deck. The two front speakers in the living room and the deck speakers are connected to the front channels on the amp via an impedance matching switch.
Although this has worked okay to this point (but not great), I would now like to add additional pairs of speakers in the kitchen and the master bedroom. Although the Marantz has a decent power supply, I'm not a big fan of running lots of speakers off a single amp so now I'm planning on using separate amps to drive each set of speakers. I honestly don't care about implementing multi-zone functionality; single-zone will work fine for us at this point but I'd like to allow for multi-zone in the future if it is justified by a higher WAF.
What I would like to do is use the Marantz amp to drive the 5 living room speakers AND use it as the overall control amp for selecting the source device. (It currently has connections to my music server PC, CD player, DVD player and has a tuner for radio.) I would then use three separate amps to power the deck speakers and the new speakers in the bedroom and kitchen. All the amps will be located together in my media cabinet in the living room but it would be delightful if there were volume controls for the speakers in each room....
I know this is probably utterly simple but how do I hook all this stuff together? All the info I find online seems to be for multi-zone systems.
Also, if anyone has a system set up like this, I'd appreciate recommendations on the three stereo amps I'll need.
As always, TIA for all the help!
xlucent
At the moment I have a fairly typical single room setup with some satellite speakers on the deck. Specifically, I have a Marantz SR5200 A/V Surround amplifier that drives five Athena Point5 speakers in my living room and two Polk Atrium 55 speakers on my deck. The two front speakers in the living room and the deck speakers are connected to the front channels on the amp via an impedance matching switch.
Although this has worked okay to this point (but not great), I would now like to add additional pairs of speakers in the kitchen and the master bedroom. Although the Marantz has a decent power supply, I'm not a big fan of running lots of speakers off a single amp so now I'm planning on using separate amps to drive each set of speakers. I honestly don't care about implementing multi-zone functionality; single-zone will work fine for us at this point but I'd like to allow for multi-zone in the future if it is justified by a higher WAF.
What I would like to do is use the Marantz amp to drive the 5 living room speakers AND use it as the overall control amp for selecting the source device. (It currently has connections to my music server PC, CD player, DVD player and has a tuner for radio.) I would then use three separate amps to power the deck speakers and the new speakers in the bedroom and kitchen. All the amps will be located together in my media cabinet in the living room but it would be delightful if there were volume controls for the speakers in each room....
I know this is probably utterly simple but how do I hook all this stuff together? All the info I find online seems to be for multi-zone systems.
Also, if anyone has a system set up like this, I'd appreciate recommendations on the three stereo amps I'll need.
As always, TIA for all the help!
xlucent