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

Posted by Bones13 on July 2, 2012 at 19:42:53:
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.