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Help with multi-room equipment.

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Old 31-10-2009, 8:16 AM   #1
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Help with multi-room equipment.

We've just moved house.

At our previous place we had our Denon system playing in the lounge and the previous owners had hard wired two ceiling speakers in the kitchen which was quite some distance away and virtually out of earshot at the other end of a large ground floor. It was nice to be able to walk around the house with the same music playing. The hard wiring was put in place via ceiling voids and into the kitchen extension when it was built 15 years ago.

We'd like to have a similar facility in our current house but don't want to rip up floors or have wires visible. As wireless technology has moved on in 15 years we thought it might be possible to use that instead.

However we don't want to spend mega bucks or buy a new stereo system. We just want something that piggy backs on our Denon's output and beams it to speakers elsewhere in what is a much smaller ground floor.

It would seem to me that a lot of people would love such a facility but strangely we don't seem to be able to find it in the market place.

Has anyone any suggestions or do we have to go back to stone age hard wiring which at least has the simplicity of just poking an extra wire in the speaker outputs.

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Old 31-10-2009, 8:39 AM   #2
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Re: Help with multi-room equipment.

>piggy backs on our Denon's output and beams it to speakers elsewhere<

Something like i-Sender Wireless Audio Sender : 2.4GHz Video Senders : Maplin on the Denon's Tape Out loop, with a set of active speakers at the other end?
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Re: Help with multi-room equipment.

That looks like it might do the trick amc, thanks.

Mind, I can't really see why they've made it portable/rechargeable, surely you'd normally be near a source of direct mains power when using something like that?

Any idea where you can get 'active' speakers?

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Re: Help with multi-room equipment.

AudioEngine A5 for example
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