baaigones
Novice Member
Hi,
I was looking for information on receivers/speakers/multi-roomsystems whan I came across this forum and I was quite impressed with the knowledge around here so I’d like to ask a few questions (hopefully in the right part of the forum, feel free to move it if I’m wrong). I’ve been looking for the answers myself here but I’m afraid I’m a newbie on good sound (and the fact that English isn’t my language isn’t a great help neither).
So the situation is this : We’re rebuilding our entire ground floor (well, not entirely, unfortunately certain walls can’t be teared down which gives serious limitations) and I would like 1) good sound in our television-area (our ‘zithoek’, in Dutch) and 2) decent sound on the entire ground floor, coming from one central ‘music-center’. Extra limitation is the budget since my wife decided on the new tiles/kitchen/roof/terrace so I’m left with what’s left of the money. I should be able to collect around 2.000 € for everything (wiring not included, that’s part of the budget for the electrician I told my wife).
Looking around I came across the Denon AVR X2200W (available at 499 € at this moment) to use as the ‘music center’. This one has two zones, and I’d use one zone entirely for the tv-area. The second zone I’d link to an artsound svc4 (around 150 €) to create extra music zones (terrace = ‘not on the map, but above the ‘keuken’ and ‘zithoek’, around 8 mtr by 7 mtr), kitchen (=’keuken’, livingroom =’leefruimte’) which can all be controlled manually (but all have the same music input). For speakers I thought about the B&W CCM362 (around 220 € a pair), putting 2 pair in every zone (except the terrace, where 1 pair should be enough to avoid problems with the neighbours). That would make a total of 2.200 €, so close enough to the budget.
Now the questions :
Extra question : putting the plan of the ground floor as an image doesn’t seem to work, the plan as a pdf-attachment did work. Any tips for fixing this ?
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I was looking for information on receivers/speakers/multi-roomsystems whan I came across this forum and I was quite impressed with the knowledge around here so I’d like to ask a few questions (hopefully in the right part of the forum, feel free to move it if I’m wrong). I’ve been looking for the answers myself here but I’m afraid I’m a newbie on good sound (and the fact that English isn’t my language isn’t a great help neither).
So the situation is this : We’re rebuilding our entire ground floor (well, not entirely, unfortunately certain walls can’t be teared down which gives serious limitations) and I would like 1) good sound in our television-area (our ‘zithoek’, in Dutch) and 2) decent sound on the entire ground floor, coming from one central ‘music-center’. Extra limitation is the budget since my wife decided on the new tiles/kitchen/roof/terrace so I’m left with what’s left of the money. I should be able to collect around 2.000 € for everything (wiring not included, that’s part of the budget for the electrician I told my wife).
Looking around I came across the Denon AVR X2200W (available at 499 € at this moment) to use as the ‘music center’. This one has two zones, and I’d use one zone entirely for the tv-area. The second zone I’d link to an artsound svc4 (around 150 €) to create extra music zones (terrace = ‘not on the map, but above the ‘keuken’ and ‘zithoek’, around 8 mtr by 7 mtr), kitchen (=’keuken’, livingroom =’leefruimte’) which can all be controlled manually (but all have the same music input). For speakers I thought about the B&W CCM362 (around 220 € a pair), putting 2 pair in every zone (except the terrace, where 1 pair should be enough to avoid problems with the neighbours). That would make a total of 2.200 €, so close enough to the budget.
Now the questions :
- Is this a decent set-up ? I’m not looking for the ultimate sound, but I’m looking for a good price/quality mix.
- Where would be the best place to put my speakers with those three strange-shaped rooms ?
- I’m afraid the tv-area has quite a low ceiling (220 cm) and a difficult shape to get good (surround) sound. The tv-would be hung at the kitchenwall, facing the giant couch (Yes, the couch is really that big).
- The kitchen has a pitched roof (starting from 300 cm at the terrace to a height of 420 cm at the side of the livingarea).
- The living area has a more normal height (around 260 cm ) but also has a difficult shape, the grey parts on the picture are walls/stairs and can’t be moved but could make the sound terrible. (maybe I should mention that the sound in kitchen and living-area would be mainly background-music).
- I’m afraid the tv-area has quite a low ceiling (220 cm) and a difficult shape to get good (surround) sound. The tv-would be hung at the kitchenwall, facing the giant couch (Yes, the couch is really that big).
- What’s the best way to connect the tv to the receiver ? Extra obstacle, my wife doesn’t want the digicorder (the thing connected to the tv to be able to watch and record shows) to be hung at the wall, so I was thinking about placing it in a closed cabinet, next to the giant couch, together with the Denon AVR X2200W. I consider buying a Logitech Harmony Elite (not part of the music-budget) to control all of this with one remote. Is this possible, and if so, what’s the best way. Or are there better/easier/cheaper options to do this ?
Extra question : putting the plan of the ground floor as an image doesn’t seem to work, the plan as a pdf-attachment did work. Any tips for fixing this ?