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Multi-Room Wireless Sound System?

Posted by Cliff on from the screw-conduits! dept.

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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  1. Re:Hmmm, go wired! by Matey-O · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You had me all the way up to Monster Cable. [Shudder] You're falling for a lot of marketing hype.

    I've got a hybrid house with wireless iTunes going to the kids' iMac upstairs, the Wired Xbox playing audio in the family room (cat 5 to the xbox, optical from there to the home theatre). You do NOT want to pipe video over 802.11g. You can do it, but if the main living spaces can be wired, leave the wireless bandwidth for better uses. The 'College Audiophile stereo' is hooked up to the music server in my office.

    Any other music needs (garage) are handled by my iPod and an iTrip.

    --
    "Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus."
  2. Re:sound in all your rooms by Wugger · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Think back, think waaaaay back, before packets, before computers. When you wanted the same music in all your rooms, what did you do? You tuned all your radios to the same station.

    Buy an FM transmitter kit for a hundred bucks, and your problems are solved. Synchronization is perfect, price is low, deployment is trivial.