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  • From: grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>
  • To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: Request to Audiophiles: Speakers
  • Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:47:14 -0500

Ah, so you've got at least A/B speaker outs on the receiver, so if you do just one per room, you can cover 4 rooms without having to worry about additional distribution amps or impedance issues. All you gotta worry about is stereo, and/or the lack thereof ;-)

I think I'd do 2 rooms to start, and just mount one in the ceiling drywall, and build the box for the other one, and see which one sounds better. You're right that the drywall is the wildcard, as it will resonate (or not) differently depending on the distance between the joists, the thickness of the drywall, and the finished surface on it.

Just remember that the final arbiter is your ears, as in what sounds best at the volume you intend to listen at.

As for picking & choosing between the ones you're looking at, that's what Google is for ;-)

I have a buddy who is in the middle of a GIANT home-automation install, which surely included some A/V work; I'll forward your question to him & see if he has any thoughts.

Ross

Monkey Boy wrote:
Thanks, Ross.
I have two very good AV receivers and I'd hate to sell one just to buy
something else. Right now, one is going directly to the TV and the other I
thought to use as a house stereo, that's why I thought of buying wall
speakers.

First, I'd mount them one to each room in the ceiling where I have nothing
but attic above. To create a chamber, I was planning to use some of my oak
or cherry board scraps to make a box between the rafters and over top of the
speaker. The only unknown is the drywall surface around the speaker. Will it
dampen it too much, will it resonate too much? I dunno...

I have 12AWG CL2 Rated 2-Conductor cable already to use and I would
basically run them across the attic and down to a junction that would drop
near the receiver.

The receiver can access my networked digital song collection as well as
shoutcast radio stations (teh internets) and over the air radio. (basically:
WKNC, WXDU, and WXYC) I think I can program a software interface that will
allow me to use a remote for each room, on or off, but that's about it for
the budget I have set.


-thom



From: grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: Request to Audiophiles: Speakers
To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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Any differences in sound caused by woofer cone materials are going to be
dwarfed by the differences imparted by the wall cavities they're mounted
in, I suspect. As you're no doubt learning, drivers and crossovers make
up only a portion of the cost & complexity of a set of speakers; the
design & materials of the enclosures are equally important.

How many speakers are you thinking of buying? How are you planning to
run the wire? How many & what kind of distribution amps are you looking at?

And how much of your music is digitized already? If you plan to do a lot
of listening to digital music, you might consider something like a set
of Squeezeboxes, connected to existing audio systems, or to freestanding
powered speakers.

http://www.slimdevices.com

I only have one Squeezebox (the Classic) myself, so I can't really speak
to how well multiple boxes sync up their playback under real-world
conditions. In theory it works, though . . .

Ross







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