Ceiling Speaker Amplifier

Stringy

Stringy

Stringy

Soldato
Joined
2 Aug 2004
Posts
4,288
Location
The moon
Just moved into a house that has ceiling speakers, the setup is:

Two speakers in the kitchen
One in the Lounge
One in the master bathroom
One in the master bedroom

I have no idea where to start with finding out the specifications of the speakers or what Amp to buy, or how to connect it up. All of the speaker cables currently end in a wardrobe in the spare room which has ample power sockets available. I already have an Amazon Echo in the kitchen, and one in the Lounge. My aim is to use my spare Echo Dot to provide an input to a single amp powering all of the speakers, only using them if I want music throughout the entire house. For other non-house party occasions I'll just use the Echos.

So, where do I start? Thanks in advance!
 
After much fun working out how to get it down I've discovered it's some sort of self contained unit with the following information
aB8oDYR.jpg
 
lucid said:
Pyle isn't a high-end brand, but as long as you're just looking for background music then they'll be okay.

Unless you fancy springing the best part of a grand on a proper multiroom multichannel amp then what I would suggest is wiring everything mono. This includes the speaker pair in the kitchen.

At a guess, the previous house owner was working on a tight budget. Five speakers could be a coincidence that it matches the number of channels on an AV Receiver - its the cheapest way to power a multiroom system - and with thw right choice of used AV receiver you could gradually migrate from running all the speakers together, to eventually having independent sources and volume control per room.

I'll post more later.
Click to expand...
Cheers for the starter, I know the previous owner (not necessarily the original installer) had a job lot of Apple Music/airplay things powering lots of individual amps. I just need to know the steps to take to have all 5 speakers playing in mono off the same input (preferably without having to buy more echo dots!) Would rather not have to buy loads more hardware just to get going.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom