Browse Forums Home Theatre & Automation Re: 2 Questions - Media Room layout and remote AV 4Jan 09, 2009 2:15 pm Building Upside down house in Wantirna VIC Current Stage: Procrastination... it's just all too hard.... Blog: http://thereluctantbuilder.blogspot.com/ Re: 2 Questions - Media Room layout and remote AV 7Jan 10, 2009 2:37 am After 2 false starts, a year living overseas, two more world trips and 3 years of uncertainty we are now starting the build process again - hopefully for real this time! Re: 2 Questions - Media Room layout and remote AV 8Jan 10, 2009 2:42 am After 2 false starts, a year living overseas, two more world trips and 3 years of uncertainty we are now starting the build process again - hopefully for real this time! Re: 2 Questions - Media Room layout and remote AV 9Jan 10, 2009 6:18 am the sonos is very good for audio distribution mate has one Re: 2 Questions - Media Room layout and remote AV 10Jan 13, 2009 8:39 am Hi guys. Just back in after a few days away (and 1 falt-out install day...).
I'd leave the Media room separate. Get whatever AV Receiver you need to do what you want in that room and leave the other rooms to another system - it will actually make driving the other multi-room system less complicated. Get a decent set of speakers for the media room, as it sounds like you're putting some effort and money into the video (in other words if you're going for the genuine 'big picture' type setup you don't ruin it with a tiny sound system...). You can start with a decent 5.1 setup that at least has some decent sized bookshelf speakers at the front - but that room will also comfortably support a good pair of floorstanders (they don't need to be huge as the room isn't...). In either case, consider the Mordaunt-Short Avant 900i series - the 902i bookshelfs or anything up to the 916i floorstanders (I have a pair of both). These are genuine high-end quality speakers from a high-end manufacturer (England) but are very reasonably priced. For playing AVIs, streaming media, anything stored on HDDs etc., there are many options here and it's changing all the time. We've gone from using things like the Zentronics Z500, DVico TVX-4130, Popcorn hour, Media Centre PCs (XP and Vista), plus other assorted media players and PVRs, and right now it genuinely looks like the Sony Playstation 3 might be the next big thing in this area (when PlayTV comes out in a couple of months). Keep an eye out in this space... For the rest of the house, considering you want at least 4 other rooms, I truly believe you can't go past the Elan System 6 (S6). It does up to 6 rooms with up to 6 different sources, all controlled and powered by one central box (the S6 itself) and it comes with 6 wall-mounted keypad controllers (controllers that allow you to control the sources as well - a function not included with competing slightly cheaper systems...). All this plus 6 pairs of speakers, fully installed can be done for as little as around $8K. Very easy to operate, very descrete, very good quality (Elan Home Systems are a high-end multi-room specialist manufacturer from the U.S.). Re: 2 Questions - Media Room layout and remote AV 11Jan 13, 2009 10:29 am muzzman P.S. Rodda - before we got married my wife lived in Knoxfield, on Bunnett Road, and then after we got married we lived on Scoresby Road until we moved over here - so I know the area quite well Down near Knox Park PS I had a mate, Simon Hughes, who lived in that street...down the end near the old strawberry farm! I also went to KPPS. Re: 2 Questions - Media Room layout and remote AV 12Jan 13, 2009 12:01 pm I was also gunna say I went to Knox Park Primary.
Do you think Matt and I have known each other for a little while... Re: 2 Questions - Media Room layout and remote AV 13Jan 13, 2009 12:14 pm Do I hear Anne Road Kindergarten?? Hello! We have a very large open plan living room and wanted to get layout options, and furnishing ideas for this space. Currently there is only a… 0 9322 Thanks for the suggestion. The space between shower and sinks was too tight. I agree about the toilet location. So I have tried two other options: The lower one is… 3 6138 |