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New member Username: Joshua05Post Number: 1 Registered: Jun-06 | To preface, I don't need a complete how-to, just an idea of where to start looking... I'm helping to set up a new cafe and we want to have a central source for music, wireless bookshelf speakers in 3 rooms, and a remote control in each room to control that room's volume. Is this possible for under $500?/How? ~Thanks for ur time! |
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Gold Member Username: KanoBC Canada Post Number: 1018 Registered: Oct-04 | You will get better value for your money by wiring the speakers. I know wireless is convenient, but in a public place you have to worry about RF interference interrupting the signal, plus you need a seperate amplifier for each wireless speaker. Put those wires behind the walls, very much worth it. As far as wiring each room to a wall control volume switch or an infared port in each room that relays back to the receiver, the parts aren't terribly effective, it's the install that will take you out of budget. If you do the install yourself you will save quite a bit. |
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Gold Member Username: Jan_b_vigneDallas, TX Post Number: 8662 Registered: May-04 | At $500 you're wasting your time. A proper switch box with VC's for the speakers will run you $250. Double your budget and do the installation yourself with hard wired speakers and you might get by. Otherwise buy a boombox and place it in one corner of the room. Make that seating in the "entertainment area". |
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Gold Member Username: ChitownPost Number: 1075 Registered: Apr-05 | Whatever you do Josh please please don't buy a set of Bose speakers thinking they look cute in your cafe and deliver great music. |
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Gold Member Username: Jan_b_vigneDallas, TX Post Number: 8665 Registered: May-04 | You can't nuy three rooms of Bose for $500. Amar's too proud for that! |
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Gold Member Username: ChitownPost Number: 1077 Registered: Apr-05 | Don't bet on it. How do you think the disappointed Bose buyers get rid of all their stuff? Ebay baby. There is more born every minute. |
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Bronze Member Username: JawPost Number: 17 Registered: Mar-06 | PSB, Paradigm, Revel, Spendor, Snell et al should sell as many speakers as Bose. Since speaker market share sales are unavailable, I'll just take a naked guess (some consultant, somewhere, trust me, has some sort of sales data) that Bose sells more. My neigbor's 901's are darn good speakers - open, airy, undistorted, balanced and detailed. Also, overpriced - purely subjective like most other audio stuff. On this board, I'm in the minority but at least some others have also commented positively on Bose. http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/bose.html I doubt the aforementioned companies are generating this volume or those on this thread are teaching at MIT, have his IQ or wealth. Fact: I don't. The man is a marketing genius. In this respect and probably sales, overshadowing the aforementioned speaker counterparts, in my opinon. Hey, who do you like - Miami or Dallas? |
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Gold Member Username: ChitownPost Number: 1081 Registered: Apr-05 | Well whatever good he did with the 901's he undid with most of his other stuff especially the accoustimass. I keep running into their annyoing noise in lots of cafe's in Chicago. So I just wanted to warn Josh. Dallas in 5 |
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Bronze Member Username: JawPost Number: 18 Registered: Mar-06 | After last night, you're probably right. |
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New member Username: Joshua05Post Number: 2 Registered: Jun-06 | haha... alright thanks for the tips guys, and don't worry, i never include the cuteness factor when it comes to audio |
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Bronze Member Username: JawPost Number: 19 Registered: Mar-06 | Miami or Dallas? |
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Gold Member Username: NuckPost Number: 2905 Registered: Dec-04 | Carolina or Edmonton? |
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Bronze Member Username: JawPost Number: 20 Registered: Mar-06 | University of Wisconsin |