Multi room hi fi

[carbore]

Help required

My House is currently a building site wiht a huge refub/rebuild going on. My wife and I would like to install some form of multi room hi fi so that we can have the same audio playing in the Kitchen, Drawing room, and Dining room.
We are not audiophiles so not interested in anything special (she likes her £40 ipod dock she got for christmas). Also it does not need to do multimedia, so really nothing more than a few extra speakers and the ability to control the volume (or mabe skip tracks)

I have a very basic NAD sepeate CD and Amp and some nice wooden floor standing Kef speakers that I could re use, but so far all the kit e.g. Cambridge incognito seems very expensive. Also we dont want boxes in each room aka Sonos as if we do that we may as well take in a iPod docking station.

Incognito looks good but its well over a grand?

Any other options????????? (dont say just turn it up loud!)

[bigfatsi]

I'd start by having a chat with Richer Sounds. They do a range of Cambridge Audio kit that's supposed to be pretty good. I'm only passing on what I've heard - not what I know!

[strapping young lad]

you could get control of tracks by buying a pronto remote control which uses radio signal not infra red to control devices... (google it)

but basically you have a receiver next to your music system and you put IR blasters in front of the IR receiver of the device in question and the pronto sends the signal to its receiver via radio then converts it to the right IR signal your system recognises..

its mint if you can find one cheap on ebay

[Dave Rogers]

Help required

My House is currently a building site wiht a huge refub/rebuild going on. My wife and I would like to install some form of multi room hi fi so that we can have the same audio playing in the Kitchen, Drawing room, and Dining room.
We are not audiophiles so not interested in anything special (she likes her £40 ipod dock she got for christmas). Also it does not need to do multimedia, so really nothing more than a few extra speakers and the ability to control the volume (or mabe skip tracks)

I have a very basic NAD sepeate CD and Amp and some nice wooden floor standing Kef speakers that I could re use, but so far all the kit e.g. Cambridge incognito seems very expensive. Also we dont want boxes in each room aka Sonos as if we do that we may as well take in a iPod docking station.

Incognito looks good but its well over a grand?

Any other options????????? (dont say just turn it up loud!)

I'd recommend looking on ebag for a CLOUD CXA4 or CXA6, basically a multi channel amp, they do appear sometimes, you simply fit the amp someplace coolish and run speaker cables to where you want, the A4 has 4 channels, ie two stereo, the CXA6 has 6, three stereo channels.........................
You can plonk any old low impedance (4 ohms ish) speakers on the amp, but a good speaker will sound quite decent.....
You'll need some sort of mixer/router as well, although the amp will accept inputs from freeview etc. I'd suggest something along the lines of the CX244 or similar, again, you'll find it on eblag.
You could install signal cables in whatever rooms you want to listen to sound in as well, ie, fit a plug to connect ipod etc which will go. At this stage of rebuild, you can be totally flexible, even putting in a computer hard wired network :)

Feel free to pm me if you want more info

Dave