Comments on: How to Get Whole House Audio from Your Existing Stereo System

By: Jen Hopkins

Jen Hopkins — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 05:52:28 +0000

I am planning to place a stereo system around the house but I do not have the needed speakers that can provide the sound that I wanted. Your post is informative and interesting. I’ll surely take note of this so that I can make a great stereo system for the house.

Jen Hopkins

By: Tayna

Tayna — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 21:23:45 +0000

I’m sending my husband to this site! I’ve been longing for a set up like this for ages. I’m tired of cranking up the stereo volume so I can hear it in other rooms. Thanks for explaining this so thoroughly.

By: Jack Stephen

Jack Stephen — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 15:01:21 +0000

The simplest answer to this question is to buy a new audio system and throw away the older stereo system. By the way, the article is good and it seems a lot of hard work has been involved in it.

Thanks,
Jack Stephen

By: Eelctronics Guru

Eelctronics Guru — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 03:01:16 +0000

Viet Nguyen,

Please give our design team a call at 1-866-224-6171. There are a bunch of different ways of getting this to work. We can get all your information and then submit you a bid on the equipment you will need.

By: Viet Nguyen

Viet Nguyen — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 22:30:41 +0000

I just brought a new house. Each room have couple speakers (even on outside), and each room come with the volume controller. I need to know what kind equipment(s) and connection that can handle all these speakers in different zone. On my media room, I saw it two different kind of speakers wire that bundle together. One is sure for the media room (this one I already done). The other have so many wire (look like catch 5 wire) and a cable TV wire.

Thank you for your help,

Viet Nguyen

By: Eelctronics Guru

Eelctronics Guru — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 02:02:03 +0000

Al,

With this receiver you can use the Zone 2 audio output to a separate amp to power the rest of the house. You will need an amp like a Niles SI-245 or SI-275 amp.

By: Al

Al — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 18:30:06 +0000

I have a pioneer 1020-k reciever. I currently am using it to run my 5.1 surround. My house is wired with four additional speaker pairs that I would like to be able to send music too. What is my best option without replacing the receiver?

Thanks

By: Electronics Guru

Electronics Guru — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 13:50:03 +0000

Tom (52):

Please call in and talk to one of our custom install guys. 1-866-224-6171. The call is free and they can help sort out your problem and get you any missing components. We also have a nationwide network of installers, so we can send somebody out to do the work for you!

Calling in gives you the best level of service since there are many Q&A’s to get a multi-room setup working properly.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 22:34:19 +0000

I currently have a Sony HT-5950DP Home Theatre System and am setting up a whole house audio system. I would like to run surround sound in the main room, with stereo sound in 3 additional rooms. All rooms are already pre-wired with in-ceiling Speakercraft CRS-2 speakers and the additional rooms have their own impedance matching volume controls. The receiver does not have capability for A/B speakers, so I am using a 4-way speaker selector box that is running from just the left and right front speaker terminals on the Sony surround sound receiver. I am getting sound in each of the rooms, but I’m not sure how to hook up the rest of the surround sound speakers. Can I simply use the remaining surround sound speaker terminals on the back of the receiver? Is it even possible to get surround sound with this configuration? Does anyone have a better suggestion? Thanks, in advance.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 05:02:36 +0000

I have a pre-wired home with speakers in each area of the house. 2 outside/2 in the work out room/ 2 in the formal living room and 5 in the great room. The 2 speakers out side/the 2 in the work out room and the 2 in the formal living room all have volume control on the wall. The work out room has a (1) set of RCA Jacks (Black and Red) high on the wall and the great room has 7 sets of RCA Jacks on a wall plate and one single jack separate from the others (not sure which one this is for). We bought a 7.1 channel Yamaha (not sure exactly which model). I hooked all the wires to the receiver. However only the 5 speakers in the great room worked when I turned the receiver on.

Am I missing something? I turned the wall volume controls all the way up through out the house and heard nothing. I am sure it is something simple. When I purchased the equipment at Best Buy they told me that I would only need the receiver, the speaker wire, and the banana clips to plug into the wall jacks.