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I am starting to organise things for my Wife's 40th Birthday next year and I am struggling with my AV
Currently I have a Windows Media Centre which outputs to my Onkyo 807. Zone 1 is my living room surround (5.1), Zone 2 is my dining room (2.0) I am about to buy a 4 channel power amp to run (pre-out) Zone 3 my conservatory and outdoor speakers, which will provide audio (and video in the living room) for the house. Outside in the garden we are putting up a marquee, which will have a parquet dancefloor and will have a full PA, mirror ball, 4 moving heads, 8 PARS, smoke machine, strobe, crab laser, and 4 Darbys, rope lights etc (we have just run this setup for a party this weekend and it works well). The PA is run off a Gemini4000 amp. What I would like to do is stream the output from my Media Center to some form of receiver in the marquee, which would connect to the line-in of the Gemini4000 to synchronise the music in the house and patio area with the marquee. It is important that the music is the same all the way through.
All of the music for the night is ripped onto my media server(from my own CD collection) and built into a playlist for the whole evening.
If the very worst comes to the worst, I have time to take a line out from my Onkyo out into the garden, but I'd rather not as it will take an entire weekend to route and draw the cable and I still have plenty to do yet (including running a second 16A ring into the garden).
Any thoughts much appreciated
Mushii
Currently I have a Windows Media Centre which outputs to my Onkyo 807. Zone 1 is my living room surround (5.1), Zone 2 is my dining room (2.0) I am about to buy a 4 channel power amp to run (pre-out) Zone 3 my conservatory and outdoor speakers, which will provide audio (and video in the living room) for the house. Outside in the garden we are putting up a marquee, which will have a parquet dancefloor and will have a full PA, mirror ball, 4 moving heads, 8 PARS, smoke machine, strobe, crab laser, and 4 Darbys, rope lights etc (we have just run this setup for a party this weekend and it works well). The PA is run off a Gemini4000 amp. What I would like to do is stream the output from my Media Center to some form of receiver in the marquee, which would connect to the line-in of the Gemini4000 to synchronise the music in the house and patio area with the marquee. It is important that the music is the same all the way through.
All of the music for the night is ripped onto my media server(from my own CD collection) and built into a playlist for the whole evening.
If the very worst comes to the worst, I have time to take a line out from my Onkyo out into the garden, but I'd rather not as it will take an entire weekend to route and draw the cable and I still have plenty to do yet (including running a second 16A ring into the garden).
Any thoughts much appreciated
Mushii
