I’m thinking about adding sound to a second room in my house, and I’d appreciate any advice or opinions on it.
The plan is to put a new amp in the back room of the house, connected to two sets of speakers: one indoors, one outdoors. These speakers will play the same music, but it’d be nice to be able to switch them on and off separately – which I figure should be fairly trivial with the right amp.
However, all of my music sits on a PC in the lounge, some 30m away from the back room of the house. The PC is connected to the stereo in the lounge and uses iTunes for playback. Once I've added some speakers to the back room, I’d like to be able to do the following:
- Play different music in the lounge and the back room, or
- Have all speakers play the same music (in sync)
- Control playback in the lounge from the lounge
- Control playback out the back from the back room
Simply running long speaker cables from the lounge to the back room won’t work because I’d have to run to the lounge every time I wanted to change a track, and all sets of speakers would have to play the same music.
I’ve been wondering whether a pair of Squeezebox Duets may be the way to go. Looking at the marketing material, a remote can control two or more receivers; the receivers can either play back the same music or different music. You can also have multiple controllers talking to the receivers, so I could have one controller living in each room.
So... what am I missing? Any other, better approaches?
CheersBuzzy
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