shenandoah75
Active Member
Well, like lighting, i've been going back and forth with whole house audio options for the last year. I've been reading through past posts on this subject as well. There are several things i found very interesting namely:
1) John's Now Playing summary
2) Paul's continued insight on all things russound...
Zones
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1) living area (office/kitchen/nook/dining/living rooms)
2) master bed/bath
3) pool/porch - debatable as general this could be clumped into living
maybe 4) family room, 5/6/7)additional zone for garage/ 2 for outbuilding, 8/9/10) 3 more for kids rooms down the road. Now, what i don't know is long term home theater/main tv plans. Right now it's upstairs in the family room, but could move to living and be in the main zone.
Setup
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For main living, generally want two speakers in each room, with a volume control on each. One exception: planning on putting one speaker in ceiling in middle of kitchen and one over the nook (might lose some stereo effect when in either of those rooms, but nook is small, and it's hard to justify 4 speakers in that whole area? any opinions / simialr dilemmas? Also, i may be moving tv/home theatersetup to the living room.
For master, 2 speakers in bed/bath and seperate volume...
Video
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At this point, i am thinking audio only. We have a few tv's in the house, but i've only got RG6 running to the rooms. I would be worried about running truly hi def stuff like blu ray, 1080p stuff over that. And i do not have access to easily run more cable as i've got a two story and cutting floor again is not an option.
I'd entertain ideas if i could pull off high quality signals with only the existing cable runs - but the cat5 based Russound HD video switcher coming out seems to only use component video which won't help me in cases like the kitchen where i want a very small flat panel. And as stated below i think the CAV would be overkill for my other needs anyway.
Wiring
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When i moved in i cut up the floor in the second story and ran all my cabling. In addition to cat6/rg6Q, i ran speaker cable and dedicated cat 5 in anticipation of the audio. The speaker loops down the walls with the cat6 feeds and is draped in the ceilings where i anticipated speakers...
Questions
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1) I like the conveinence of A-bus, but am very fearful of the limited level i might get out of it. So Paul, can you give any more details on your post here:
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=769435
How much more power we talking? Those new keypads look sweet too. I would be willing to hold out for summer if they truly could drive a pair of 6.5s well (think of boston's third stage, def leppard hysteria as my measuring sticks).
2) because i have 5 rooms in one zone, a 6 channel setup like CAM seems like overkill. I'm more interested at least within that 1 zone for single source distribution.
3) i'm not opposed to using impedence matching VC's off a single high power amp for main living area (nor using a unit like the denon's that have built in 2nd/3rd room support). I could probably live without local control save the volume in such a setup, though it would be nice.
4) I am also not opposed to the dedicated amp approach in John's example. Only question i have is that i still don't understand in that setup how you would control the volume locally in a room. I would rather not have handheld remotes laying around pointing to inwall IR's. What would be nice is a VC that somehow tied into the closet and there immitted IR to the relevant receiver? Maybe that is part of what i've been reading and i just fail to understand how it is done?
Anyway, as always thx in adance to paul/john and all other input
-brad
1) John's Now Playing summary
2) Paul's continued insight on all things russound...
Zones
-------
1) living area (office/kitchen/nook/dining/living rooms)
2) master bed/bath
3) pool/porch - debatable as general this could be clumped into living
maybe 4) family room, 5/6/7)additional zone for garage/ 2 for outbuilding, 8/9/10) 3 more for kids rooms down the road. Now, what i don't know is long term home theater/main tv plans. Right now it's upstairs in the family room, but could move to living and be in the main zone.
Setup
-------
For main living, generally want two speakers in each room, with a volume control on each. One exception: planning on putting one speaker in ceiling in middle of kitchen and one over the nook (might lose some stereo effect when in either of those rooms, but nook is small, and it's hard to justify 4 speakers in that whole area? any opinions / simialr dilemmas? Also, i may be moving tv/home theatersetup to the living room.
For master, 2 speakers in bed/bath and seperate volume...
Video
-------
At this point, i am thinking audio only. We have a few tv's in the house, but i've only got RG6 running to the rooms. I would be worried about running truly hi def stuff like blu ray, 1080p stuff over that. And i do not have access to easily run more cable as i've got a two story and cutting floor again is not an option.
I'd entertain ideas if i could pull off high quality signals with only the existing cable runs - but the cat5 based Russound HD video switcher coming out seems to only use component video which won't help me in cases like the kitchen where i want a very small flat panel. And as stated below i think the CAV would be overkill for my other needs anyway.
Wiring
-------
When i moved in i cut up the floor in the second story and ran all my cabling. In addition to cat6/rg6Q, i ran speaker cable and dedicated cat 5 in anticipation of the audio. The speaker loops down the walls with the cat6 feeds and is draped in the ceilings where i anticipated speakers...
Questions
======
1) I like the conveinence of A-bus, but am very fearful of the limited level i might get out of it. So Paul, can you give any more details on your post here:
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=769435
How much more power we talking? Those new keypads look sweet too. I would be willing to hold out for summer if they truly could drive a pair of 6.5s well (think of boston's third stage, def leppard hysteria as my measuring sticks).
2) because i have 5 rooms in one zone, a 6 channel setup like CAM seems like overkill. I'm more interested at least within that 1 zone for single source distribution.
3) i'm not opposed to using impedence matching VC's off a single high power amp for main living area (nor using a unit like the denon's that have built in 2nd/3rd room support). I could probably live without local control save the volume in such a setup, though it would be nice.
4) I am also not opposed to the dedicated amp approach in John's example. Only question i have is that i still don't understand in that setup how you would control the volume locally in a room. I would rather not have handheld remotes laying around pointing to inwall IR's. What would be nice is a VC that somehow tied into the closet and there immitted IR to the relevant receiver? Maybe that is part of what i've been reading and i just fail to understand how it is done?
Anyway, as always thx in adance to paul/john and all other input
-brad