whand
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We're moving to a new build house and looking for 3 setups in different rooms.
In our living room (no TV etc) we'd like a system thats optimised for quality music playback. We play all our music through AirPlay, so we're looking for a receiver with built-in AirPlay. Here we would like some quality loudspeakers with independent subwoofer.
In our media room (TV, Sky, Bluray, Apple TV) we're looking for an AV receiver and whatever the best reasonable surround configuration is, 5.1, 7.1 etc so I can get some wall plates put in. I'm at a bit of a loss to surround speaker configurations, so any advice/experience is appreciated here.
Some other smaller rooms will also contain either speaker wall plugs or concealed celling/wall speakers. Here we would like a relatively basic/value-for-money receiver that has AirPlay connectivity or ability for connection of an AirPort Express for example. These systems will be self contained.
I'm also interested in what people believe are the best room layouts for a media room - aka: where to place equipment racks, where to have plate input/output, how to conceal cables, how to connect equipment and what grade of cables should I be looking at (for any of the rooms).
One of our aims is to keep each setup relatively 'pure' and easy to use, while at the same time keeping each component independant and of high quality so it can be future proof and flexible.
We have ethernet cabling built in so we would be aiming to connect the AirPort equipment via ethernet - if thats applicable?
We have a relatively large budget for media equipment, and we're looking for medium-high range equipment - but exceptions can be made We're moving in during January so I'm looking to brush up and get advice and recommendation on what equipment/techniques/configuration to use.
Thanks
In our living room (no TV etc) we'd like a system thats optimised for quality music playback. We play all our music through AirPlay, so we're looking for a receiver with built-in AirPlay. Here we would like some quality loudspeakers with independent subwoofer.
In our media room (TV, Sky, Bluray, Apple TV) we're looking for an AV receiver and whatever the best reasonable surround configuration is, 5.1, 7.1 etc so I can get some wall plates put in. I'm at a bit of a loss to surround speaker configurations, so any advice/experience is appreciated here.
Some other smaller rooms will also contain either speaker wall plugs or concealed celling/wall speakers. Here we would like a relatively basic/value-for-money receiver that has AirPlay connectivity or ability for connection of an AirPort Express for example. These systems will be self contained.
I'm also interested in what people believe are the best room layouts for a media room - aka: where to place equipment racks, where to have plate input/output, how to conceal cables, how to connect equipment and what grade of cables should I be looking at (for any of the rooms).
One of our aims is to keep each setup relatively 'pure' and easy to use, while at the same time keeping each component independant and of high quality so it can be future proof and flexible.
We have ethernet cabling built in so we would be aiming to connect the AirPort equipment via ethernet - if thats applicable?
We have a relatively large budget for media equipment, and we're looking for medium-high range equipment - but exceptions can be made We're moving in during January so I'm looking to brush up and get advice and recommendation on what equipment/techniques/configuration to use.
Thanks