Re: Overkill? Distributed Power Amps..

Get the niles amp.  Can handle all this and gives you control panels in
each room.



Jess Askey said:
> sort of taking this topic one step farther...
>
> Im in the process of gutting my 100 year old house and I have cat5e,
> coax and stereo speakers into every room. My hope is to use the coax to
> run digital audio from local room sources to the central 'rack', then
> have a multi module amp powering the speakers to every room with some
> sort of audio multiplexer to control which room gets which signal (there
> appear to be lots of X-10 and infrared solutions for the MUX). This
> obviously leads to lots of DAC's and some sort of modular (6 rooms = 12
> channel) stereo amp. While I have only done very light research on this
> equipment on the web, I was wondering if anyone else had this scenario
> or another and any stories or recommendations to go along with it on how
> to deal with the multiple DACS and modular amp.
>
> Peter G. Viscarola wrote:
>
>>>stunning results.  It would be interesting to see if a SPDIF
>>>mod for the AT is possible, as the TosLink connection is
>>>definatly the weakest link in the chain.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>You mean a S/PDIF mod that allows a connection via coax instead of
>>Toslink, I presume.
>>
>>Not only is this possible, it's been designed and done a number of times
>>-- Most recently by a colleague I met via this list a couple of years
>>ago.
>>
>>If folks are interested, I could almost certainly dig up the schematics
>>with some effort.  IIRC, it required a bit of soldering, a new hole in
>>the case, and not much else.
>>
>>Peter
>>(System: Audiotron to Proceed D/A, to Carey Audio Pre, to Krell Amp, to
>>B&W 802s)
>>
>>
>