RE: Just bought a house prewired with speakers- attempting to set it up properly.

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I have a condo at the beach with pre-wiring installed.

The audio installer that I used installed the ceiling speakers, and wired the 2 in one ceiling to be the surround for the HT unit. The other 3 zones he ran off of the "second zone" amp in my HT amp. I run an airport express into the HT amp, and we usually stream audio from a laptop into the overhead speakers.

He used transformer based volume controls mounted on the walls, and an impedence matching transformer based box to spread the 2 channels to all the speakers. Plays loud enough for my small condo at the beach. If I route the sound to the 5.1 system it can play way too loud for comfort.

Another method would be to use a multi channel amp down at the distribution site, 2 channels per room. The method my installer used involved a programmed remote that controls my gear via RF from anywhere in the unit.

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Topic - Just bought a house prewired with speakers- attempting to set it up properly. - chasetcurry 10:22:23 07/02/12 (15)

RE: Just bought a house prewired with speakers- attempting to set it up properly. - Bones13 19:42:53 07/02/12 (0)

I have done this...if you have no more than six locations... - Steve Parry 13:17:31 07/02/12 (5)

RE: I have done this...if you have no more than six locations... - chasetcurry 19:43:33 07/02/12 (3)

It is possible ... - reelsmith. 06:29:07 07/03/12 (2)

RE: It is possible ... - chasetcurry 07:00:43 07/03/12 (1)

RE: It is possible ... - chasetcurry 06:23:04 07/04/12 (0)

Thanks for the link, Steve ... - andyr 19:15:01 07/02/12 (0)

You need something like this: - Prisoners 11:08:47 07/02/12 (0)

That's cool - rocky raccoon 10:47:26 07/02/12 (6)

RE: That's cool - chasetcurry 11:14:09 07/02/12 (5)

No. - Prisoners 11:16:33 07/02/12 (4)

RE: No. - chasetcurry 11:35:24 07/02/12 (3)

Well - actually - rocky raccoon 10:43:42 07/04/12 (1)

RE: Well - actually - chasetcurry 19:50:52 07/05/12 (0)

I have an airport express - Prisoners 11:39:10 07/02/12 (0)

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RE: Just bought a house prewired with speakers- attempting to set it up properly. - Bones13 19:42:53 07/02/12 (0)

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