I will say this though, a receiver is a lousy device for driving whole house multi room audio unless the zone 2 preouts can be used to power a distribution amp. I have no idea of your hookup and there are a lot of ways to do it. I suspect he is an idiot, and the impedance presented to your receiver is far too low. Thank you audioholics.Ĭlick to expand.First off I have no idea if your contractor is competent or an idiot.
Budget is important (as you probably guessed by the equipment I have) but I don't want to spend too little and kill another piece of equipment (if that is what happened). I appreciate any advice, I am an absolute audiophyte but I love music and I am seriously crushed at this turn of events. I am using 16 gauge for the short runs between the stereo/speakers and the wall. They do home theater wiring for a local installer and said they could handle this with no issues and I figured they knew what they were doing. The one piece of information I don't have is the gauge of the speaker wire run by the electricians. Also, if it matters, my music is mostly heavy metal in its various sub-genres, but I also listen to classical, bluegrass, folk, and classic rock. Would it be a bad idea to have two different brands of speakers for this purpose or would it not really matter? If it makes a difference, part of the remodel was a change from carpet to vinyl plank flooring in those two rooms. The speakers are in the living room and the future set will be in the dining room, both facing towards the kitchen, with the idea the kitchen would be bathed in sound. I have not had any complaints with them, but also admit I don't know enough to know what I might be missing. I have read enough in the forums to know that the Polk speakers I have are not well regarded. My second question relates to the future purchase of a second set of speakers. This is a pure music setup, am I correct in assuming I would be better off with just an amplifier and run the squeezebox into that? I don't even need radio honestly, let alone all the video inputs on this receiver. When I turned it back on, (mistake) there was a flash and smoke came up from inside the receiver.Īm I asking for too much from this receiver? Obviously if driving one set of speakers at that distance was too much, I am going to need a whole lot more horsepower to drive a zone two. The stereo started and played fine, but when I went into the settings to balance the speakers the receiver turned off. The horizontal distance between the stereo and speakers is 24 feet, but there is about 13 more feet of vertical travel up and down the walls. I only have the one set of speakers still, so that is all I connected. Today I was finally able to hook the stereo back up.
The stereo's designated place is now about midway between the two walls in two rooms that have speaker wire plates. We just finished a remodeling job on our house and my one request for the remodel was to have speaker wire run for a multi-room music setup. The system had previously been set up with the receiver on the same wall as the speakers.
CNET Australia's office is in the heart of the Sydney CBD and we were only able to get reception once we moved the radio to the corner of the office so that the antenna was pointing straight up George St.For the past two years I have been enjoying an Onkyo RC360 receiver, Polk Monitor 70 speakers, and a Squeezebox Touch as a pure music system. Even though you may live in a metro area you may find that you can't pick up digital radio, and while the Sensia has a telescopic antenna the tuner isn't particularly sensitive. Performanceĭespite the Sensia letting you listen to internet radio and FM, this is a digital radio first and foremost. While the Sensia is ostensibly designed for use indoors, Pure has provided a ChargePak slot for the optional rechargeable battery. But that's not all, the radio gives you access to Twitter, Facebook, Picasa, DLNA content and internet radio via the large screen.Ĭonnectivity is ample, with 802.11b wireless (but no Ethernet), radio antenna (naturally), USB, 3.5mm auxiliary input and a headphone jack. Artist and track details are just the start with weather, news and sports results able be pumped over the waves and displayed on the Sensia's large screen. As we alluded to in our introduction, one of digital radio's main benefits is the wealth of information not available via traditional FM.
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