Poor Man's Whole House Audio?

Posted by Cliff on Thursday November 17, 2005 @03:35PM from the music-in-every-room dept.

robtheauditor asks: "I would love to have my music in all the various rooms of our house. I can't afford the thousands for a turnkey system. What are the possibilities for a poor man's whole house audio system? For example, would it be possible to take my PC external audio connector and feed it to a bunch of powered speakers in different rooms? Could I just bring a bunch of 3.5mm plugs wired together in parallel, or would that not work? I was thinking that even if the signal is weak because it is split to 6 different speaker pairs, because the speakers are powered it wouldn't matter. Or will I risk burning out my sound card?"

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Re:If I were going to do this... by kisielk · 2005-11-17 17:53 · Score: 0, Redundant

You can pick up mixing consoles for fairly cheap on Cragislist. I've seen older 8 channel Mackie's going for under $100.
Re:If I were going to do this... by blincoln · 2005-11-17 19:26 · Score: 0, Redundant

8 channel, or 8 bus?

I will feel very old if an 8-bus Mackie is going for under $100. Then I will buy three of them.

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