Anyone here have any recent experience with designing a whole-home audio system?<\/p>\n
Our current house has ethernet throughout, and all of our iTunes libraries1<\/sup> live on a NAS. My desktop PC handles playing iTunes in the 'office' room. In the living room, we have a Windows laptop which has its audio out connected to our AV receiver; this laptop's primary lot in life is to run iTunes. <\/p>\n The receiver has two audio zones: living room and back porch. The receiver also handles video switching: cable, DVD and the laptop's video out. <\/p>\n This setup works OK, but it does nothing in any other room.<\/p>\n Since we're starting new construction we have the opportunity to set up any kind of audio system that we want (and can afford). We'll be doing ethernet everywhere regardless.<\/p>\n I've been looking at Sonos, but it's not clear what I'd need for components. And it kindof sounds like I could maybe ditch my A\/V receiver - run the BluRay player and cable directly into our TV (let it handle switching video sources) and then maybe grab the audio out from the TV and into some kind of Sonos setup?<\/p>\n Or, Apple's Airplay? <\/p>\n Anyone know anything about any of this? I know I can pay someone a lot to design and install a kick-ass system, but I really don't want to.<\/p>\n 1: Let's just assume that switching to a non-iTunes-based system is out of the question. We have close to 20,000 songs and most were either ripped into iTunes or purchased from the iTunes store. We're locked in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Anyone here have any recent experience with designing a whole-home audio system? Our current house has ethernet throughout, and all of our iTunes libraries1 live on a NAS. My desktop PC handles playing iTunes in the 'office' room. In the living room, we have a Windows laptop which has its audio out connected to our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21708"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21723,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21708\/revisions\/21723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}