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In Reply to: Whole House Audio System posted by djsail on December 7, 2006 at 02:55:15:
Squeezeboxes do a great job for the whole house audio system. You can get them either wired (cat5) or wireless or a combination. You run slimserver on a computer somewhere in the house that stores the music library, it can be accessed from any of the squeezeboxes in the house.The SBs do not have amps or speakers so you will need to come up with those for each location. I consider this an advantage because most of the locations I'm putting in a squeezebox already have a speaker setup.
The SB has a two line character display and an IR remote, but no front pannel buttons so you need to make sure the remote stays near by the box!
The SBs are also controlable through an external web interface so you can use any computers or PDAs or even newer cell phones to run the system.
In my house, in the 'listening room' I have a small fanless computer (running linux) next to the listening chair and the SB3 connected to my homebuilt DAC across the room with the rest of the system. I can control this from either the computer or the SB remote. I usually just use the remote. The rest of the locations have SB3s plugged into whatever system I already had in the room. I have softsqueeze running on the laptops so if you are working on a laptop you can also access the library. I recently got my wife a small tablet PC that she takes around the house with her, with softsqueeze on it she can put on her headphones and listen to the library wherever she is in the house.
For a server I built a PC with a raid 5 array. I'm running Linux on it and decided to use the linux soft raid rather than a hardware raid controller. I have 4 250gig Seagate drives (they were on sale at my local store for a rediculously low price), in a raid 5 array thats 750gigs of usable space which was enough for our current collection. Its very stable, I've been running it for a couple months without rebooting, it works fine.
Some people hate the slimserver software, but for our house it works fine. We're probably not doing all the sophisticated stuff that others are doing so its probably fine for us.
I think the squeezebox is the way to go for a whole house system.
John S.
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