Option 2: this option is interesting if you require more power than the 50w per channel that a Sonos:Amp can give you. This would give you 6 independent zones with 50w of power (8 Ohm) per channel, which is fine for most applications. Option 1: assuming each zone has a pair of speakers, the simplest way to go would be to use one separate Sonos:Amp for each zone, so six total. your "plant room"), then you can accomplish what you want in several manners, depending on the result you're looking for. If I understand correctly and all of your speaker cables originate from the same place (i.e.
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Sonos has been around for a long time and they make very reliable, very easy to use products that make multizone audio a breeze to design, install and use. It's competitors (Denon HEOS, Russound, etc.) don't come close. There are several ways to go about this, but first, the basics: today, the multizone product that supports the most commercial streaming services is Sonos, period. Yes and no, it depends on how your system is set up, amplifier-wise. I'm under the impression that I'd need a Sonos amp for each zone but they would all be in the same place. Wait, whaaaaat? Busllshit bullshit bullshit. I've heard that Sonos doesn't perform as well in that environment. If by "plant room" you're referring to a technical room or cabinet, then that's actually a good thing. Given the parameters of your equation (support for multiple streaming services and ability to play multiple, independent zones at the same time), yes, it most likely would.īut the speakers have been run in home runs to the plant room Good luck man! Aside from my big names there's a few other decent ones out there. At $450CDN each I was looking at $3,600 now and another $1800 down the road for the version that requires the amplifiers I bought anyway (again they didn't have enough juice to power my 4 speaker zones). I looked at going the Sonos only route but they didn't put out enough power for what I wanted to do and with 8 zones (expanding to 12 next year once I develop my basement) Sonos got insanely expensive. Can use Apple Airport Expresses, Apple Tvs, etc etc to provide any combination of inputs. You can pair the Russound (or any matrix controller) with a set of Sonos devices as well to provide the input side of things. Some decent stuff out there right now for sure. I bought my controller at end of life for a bit of a steal of a deal from a local supplier that I was doing other stuff with, the DMS3.1, and my amps off ebay. Spotify plays from one of my computers / phones through airplay to the system, works well enough. I have a Russound DMS3.1 which is what I use to connect to Sirrius, play my private library, and it provides 3 apple airplay end points I can connect various devices to. My controller accepts 8 inputs and any zone can play any one of those inputs or the radio. Going with a set of chromecast audios, as far as I understand it, won't give you this option though Sonos will. There's all sorts of party mode / bonding that can happen with all of my zones, basically if I want the same source playing on my entire main floor I bond all those zones together and they play from the same source I split them, that's what the matrix controller does. The app is no where near as good as the Sonos one though.
5 of my 8 zones have wall key pads which I do not regret, Russound also has an iApp which is what I use for everything else. I did this because some of my zones have 4 speakers and at 100W each speaker the Russound device wasn't enough to power them properly. I have 8 zones at the moment running from an MCA88 (previous generation) that flows to amps via preouts and then to the actual speakers. To provide the "non sonos" opinion, I went Russound.
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