Advice The Home Improvement/Automation Thread

[Jehannum]

you wouldnt

a modern integrated ecosystem.

What advantage does "a modern integrated ecosystem" provide for listening to music?

 

[Strings]

 

[Mean Mr. Mustard]

What advantage does "a modern integrated ecosystem" provide for listening to music?

I dunno
I have 70s-era stereo equipment and it sounds pretty great to me
No blueteeth or wiffiles needed

 

[Jehannum]

I dunno
I have 70s-era stereo equipment and it sounds pretty great to me
No blueteeth or wiffiles needed

yeah, same here.

 

[Mean Mr. Mustard]

 

[gee]

HEY BRO WANNA COME LISTEN TO MY BOSE 901S?

That depends, got that shitty equalizer box that comes with them plumbed into your stereo system somehow?

 

[gee]

That being said, 70s floor standers are the best speakers ever.

 

[Jehannum]

That depends, got that shitty equalizer box that comes with them plumbed into your stereo system somehow?

I mean, they just sound like a box of paper cone garbage if you don't.

 

[fly]

I dunno
I have 70s-era stereo equipment and it sounds pretty great to me
No blueteeth or wiffiles needed

That won't work well for zoned, whole home audio.

 

[Mean Mr. Mustard]

That won't work well for zoned, whole home audio.

It will if I turn it up loud enough and ignore the complaints

 

[Mikeawesome]

just installed ceiling speakers for a 5.1.2 atmos setup. sounds pretty good.

 

[Domon]

What advantage does "a modern integrated ecosystem" provide for listening to music?

automation, music that follows you through the home, ability to pipe audio from any source you want.

Ill put it in jenkum terms. You dont have to go to your basement and change out the tape desk to change songs

 

[Domon]

just installed ceiling speakers for a 5.1.2 atmos setup. sounds pretty good.

ive been deeply unsatisfied with my 5.1.2. Whats yours look like. I have two floorstanders up front, a center two bookshelves in the back, sub, and 4 atmos ceiling speakers.

It may be my receiver setup.

 

[Mikeawesome]

ive been deeply unsatisfied with my 5.1.2. Whats yours look like. I have two floorstanders up front, a center two bookshelves in the back, sub, and 4 atmos ceiling speakers.

It may be my receiver setup.

i have a mix of speakers from different companies. KEF bookshelf for the front, Pioneer andrew jones center, cheap amazon inwall speakers for the rears. cheap Pyle ceiling speakers. For subwoofer I got the monoprice monolith 10 inch. The sub is what made the biggest difference. it ties everything together.

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[Domon]

what receiver, and inputs to that receiver?

 

[Hoff Kinkmeister]

then you swap out the sonos amps in your multimedia cabinet.

going speakers with built in SONOS would be a bad idea by your logic though

Or get regular amps and let the preamp or something in front of it do whatever the hell it is you want with "zones", then you only have to replace that thing. '70s audio equipment still works because of the modularity, you just slap a Bluetooth preamp in front of it and bam it's modern.

 

[Mikeawesome]

what receiver, and inputs to that receiver?

pioneer vsx-lx101

VSX-LX101 | AV Receivers | Products | Pioneer Home Audio Visual

intl.pioneer-audiovisual.com

 

[Jehannum]

automation, music that follows you through the home, ability to pipe audio from any source you want.

Ill put it in jenkum terms. You dont have to go to your basement and change out the tape desk to change songs

I think I've already circumvented that, since all my stuff is on a remotely accessible share, and the only spot I use my LPs is where the record player is (conveniently situated next to where I can sit with a whiskey and a cigar).

 

[OOD]

I just use my sound bar to listen to music. Works great.

 

[Ex` ange]

You're welcome to assist in finding this unicorn!

I mean.. it's not hard. I have two amps that are more than 20 years old that still work.