Multi-Room Wireless Sound System?

abrinton asks: "I just went into escrow on a new house. Of course, first thoughts are to the sound system. I don't want to wire. Anything. I've got a wireless network, so computers are all sorted. But what do I do for sound? I need ideas for a centrally controlled sound system that can use 802.11g for transport. I'd like to have the same music everywhere, or better still, options to play different things in different rooms. I've got access to tons of old PIII laptops, wireless gear, old computers, sound cards, etc to make this work. Has anyone got any ideas or done anything like this?"

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Same music in every room

[eln]

This is so easy, I don't even know why you had to post it to Slashdot.

So, here it is, how to have the same music play in every room in your house, in 3 easy steps:

1.) Buy stereo system with very large speakers
2.) Put stereo system in one room of your house. Orient speakers so they face toward the rest of the house.
3.) Turn volume up all the way.

If you still have some "dead spots" in the house where the sound doesn't reach, you'll need my specidal educational pamphlet "Sledgehammers and You," available for only $9.95, plus shipping and handling.

Re:iTunes

[Anonymous Coward]

" I am sure someone else will mention it, but I use iTunes exclusively for music throughout our home."

What, are you famous or something? Why would anybody else be telling us what you use in your home? And BTW, who the hell are you anyway?

Don't forget

[Mr2cents]

> I don't want to wire. Anything.

I suggest batteries.. a lot of them.

Re:Hmmm, go wired!

[QMO]

Forget digital, go vinyl.

But, if you're really serious:

Forget viny, forget CD, forget DVD audio, forget 8-track. The only way to go is to get the whole orchestra in your house, and bring John Williams himself home to conduct it.

Anything less is for pikers who might as well just listen to 75-year-old AM radio playing scratchy wire-recordings, or the neighborhood cats singing in the street.