Multi-Room
What is Multi-Room?
Multi-room is the ability to send audio and/or vision throughout your house to one or more rooms.
Where would I use it?
Multi-room systems can be used for sending Video and/or Music to:
Outdoor area/s Bedroom/s Living area/s
This means you can entertain your guests with sound and vision, in whatever areas of your house you like, all at the same time.
Costs involved?
Depending on the receiver that you choose to buy - a lot of 7.1 Channel surround receivers have the option of a second zone output built in, some have up to 3 extra outputs, so the only cost could be as little as the speakers and the cabling to suit.
If this is something you wish to look into, have a talk to us about your different options.
Proper Distributed AV Multi-room
What is it?
A true distributed AV Multi-room setup is a system that is specifically designed to send audio and visual around to multiple rooms. Usually this type of system is designed to have from 4 – 6 areas with up to 8 products that can be connected (CD, Radio, DVD, TV, Pay etc) and are operated by a Keypad.
The Keypad sits flush in the wall of each designated area and you can also utilize a remote control for ease of use. The average system we use, uses in-wall or in-ceiling speakers, this way there is absolutely no room taken up in each area, but it is like having all your equipment in every room without the mess. Every area operates independently, you can watch or listen to whatever you want in any room, without worrying what anyone else is doing, and the volume is also totally independent.
What do I require?
You would require a AV Multi-room product like the HAL CA6.2. This HAL product comes with all the Keypads, Amplifiers and Switching to run 6 areas independently. It also contains all the Audio and Video switching to suit 6 main source components and optional 2 local components in each room plus the ability to stream your music stored from your PC into each room.
The keypads even control the products that are connected to it.
What can I broadcast throughout my house?
Anything you want! That’s the great thing with this system, it can be any Audio source or any Video source, there are even high definition add-on upgrade modules you can add, which means you can send True High Definition around the house.
So if you invest in high quality LCD or Plasma Panels for your different rooms, you are not limited to low quality video distribution like a lot of other systems that are currently being promoted elsewhere.
