Multizone amplifiers

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Multizone amplifiers

Postby Alwayslearnin on Sun Jul 17, 2005 9:59 pm

Hi, I'm very new to Xlobby, but I keep reading about multizone audio capabilities, but what I don't see is how the speakers are powered from the different sound cards.

My current sound cards feed into powered speakers, but I'm not planning to run powered speakers in my walls for whole house audio.

What do you put between your sound cards and the speakers (and no I don't mean wire). :)

Thanks,
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Postby rhinoman on Sun Jul 17, 2005 10:36 pm

I have a stack of stereo amps next to the pc with the soundcards with long speaker runs to the speakers.
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Postby summerall on Mon Jul 18, 2005 3:50 am

I'm not sure where you can buy these at anymore but Griffin Tech makes a product called the "powerwave". It is an external USB sound card that can power a set of speakers.

http://www.powerbookcentral.com/columns ... wave.shtml
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Postby jimmyb on Mon Jul 18, 2005 4:04 am

If you can't find the Griffin, try this: http://us.creative.com/products/product.asp?category=1&subcategory=206&product=10702

I use it and it works great.
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Postby summerall on Mon Jul 18, 2005 1:43 pm

jimmy

Does this acutally card power the speakers? Or do you have to run this cards output to a receiver and then into the speakers?
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Postby samgreco on Mon Jul 18, 2005 5:18 pm

The Creative is not powered, so you'd still need an amp. The Griffin Powerwave is/was the only powered external that I know of.
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Postby 90c4 on Thu Jul 21, 2005 1:33 am

I've got the Home Theater Direct 12 channel amp. Works and sounds great and the price is right. http://htd.com/muam.html
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Postby hjackson on Thu Jul 21, 2005 2:15 pm

90c4, thanks for posting that amp. That's a great amp for that price point! Does it have IR On/Off control? Can you control the individual channel volumes by IR?

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HTD MA-1235

Postby Alwayslearnin on Sat Jul 23, 2005 5:05 am

That does seem to solve several issues at a great price. The diagrams show the system connecting to wall volume controls, so I'm assuming if the volume controls have an IR ON/OFF function, that set of speakers can be controlled via the VC.

90c4, are you connecting to VCs or just running wire directly to the speakers, and if you are running directly to the speakers, how are you controlling volume?
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