I've spent the last week reading years worth of posts regarding home networking for new builds and a bit of research in to multi-room audio as well. Enough to be dangerous anyway. I'll be building a 4 bedroom, 2 living house this year - completion date basically Xmas 2012. I have uploaded a floor plan. Overkill is under-rated. As such, the house will be wired to the hilt to accommodate serious networking, HDMI distribution, wireless access points, network printers, phones, NAS and gaming consoles. I will also be wiring for automation features, such as IP cameras, intercoms, door sensors, fire/smoke alarms, irrigation and water tank control. Hardware for most of this will not be purchased. Just wired in, ready to go. The central cupboard will be located at one end of the hot-water cupboard (which is large) - see attached image. This will house the patch panel and the planned unimaginable amount of cabling. To the audio...Below is a list of what I am currently looking at. I have been in touch with some people with regard to this. i'm having a meeting next week and I'd like to be as well informed as possible. Suggested multi-room equipment has included Russound and the Nuvo Grand Concerto. Personal research has come up with the obvious - SONOS and BOSE. BUDGET = $20,000 give or take. HOW I WANT TO OPERATE MY MULTI-ROOM AUDIO All music to be on a NAS. That way the computer doesn't have to be onNice and tidy music library set up. Like my iTunesControllable from an Android and/or "i"device.Controllable via WiFi (Macbook Air)Controllable via hardwired iMacI want it to be very very easy to useI'd like guests to be able to play their own music from their portable device over WiFi. HOW I WOULD INSTALL THE SYSTEM Along with the patch panel and all the other cables, the entire Multi-Room audio is planned to be set up in the same cupboard. As such, if SONOS was the way I went, I would still have all the SONOS units in there - simply piggybacked together with long and short speaker cable runs to the named zones.If required, I'd still have discreet locations near the master bedroom and the garage to set up a SONOS Connect:AMP (still hard-wired).ZONE 1 - Main Living Room (Stage 1) ------------------------------ BOSE - V35 with premium jewel cube speakersBOSE - 791 in-ceiling speakers (Compatible with amplifiers or receivers rated 10-100W per channel/rated 4 to 8 ohms & 50W IEC continuous power handling; rated 6 ohms)SONOS: AMP - powering the 791's (Class-D. Rated output 110W RMS (2x55W continuous average power into 8 ohms, THD+N ZONE 2 - Cinema Room (to be wired for future hardware - Stage 2) (XBOX and iMac in this room) ------------------------------ BOSE - T20 with jewel cube speakers (to be purchased at a later date)SONOS - CONNECT (to be purchased at a later date) ZONE 3 - Kitchen and Dining (Stage 1) ------------------------------ BOSE - 191 in-ceiling, (Set in the kitchen and a set in the dining room - both powered by the single SONOS: AMP) (Compatible with amplifiers or receivers rated 10-100W per channel/rated 4 to 8 ohms & 50W IEC continuous power handling; rated 6 ohms)SONOS: AMP (as spec'd above) ZONE 4 - West Courtyard (Stage 1) ------------------------------ BOSE - 251 outdoor speakers (Compatible with amplifiers or receivers rated 10-200 watts per channel/rated 4 to 8 ohms & 100W IEC continuous power handling; rated 6 ohms)SONOS: AMP (as spec'd above) ZONE 5 - North Deck (Stage 1) ------------------------------ BOSE - 251 outdoor speakers, (as spec'd above)SONOS: AMP (as spec'd above) ZONE 6 - Garage (Stage 1) ------------------------------ BOSE - 301 bookshelf (hanging in the corners of the garage) (Compatible with amplifiers and receivers rated from 10 to 150 watts per channel. Rated 4 - 8 ohms)SONOS: AMP (as spec'd above) ZONE 7 - Master Bedroom (to be wired for future hardware - Stage 2) ------------------------------ BOSE - 191 in-ceiling, (as spec'd above)SONOS: AMP (as spec'd above) ZONE 8 - Garage Outdoors (to be wired for future hardware - Stage 2) ------------------------------ BOSE - 251 outdoor speakers, (as spec'd above)SONOS: AMP (as spec'd above)
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