Hi 65535 and welcome to the forum.

I see you have edited your original post :-)

After reading the part where you describe the ‘demands’ of your wife, I was about to answer - but did not manage to finish the post in the evening.

My answer would have been:

You - for the sake of your wife - are basicly predestined to get a Beovision tv (current Eclipse or the Harmony.....or maybe a preused BV11/Avant 1st gen).

That is where you have everything you’d need: advanced multichannel preamp, multiroom capacity, controlling the ATV with the same remote as for the rest of the setup —- and also the transmitters for the 18’ and 17’s.....in order to avoid the cable clutter.

I just hesitated, because I am not sure that you’d want to skip your Sony or if you want to/are willing to invest, what that might cost.

Coming back to your recent post version - yes, you indeed would need a ‘seperate surround (not amp, but) pre-amp’ and you would need the extra transmitters inclding the cabling.

Many have built a setup this way - and live with it. Whether it will suit your (and your wifes) needs is hard to say.

I am sure some of these users can tell about the pros and cons.

The only other ‘third party solution’, that I can think of, is the Almando Multiplay Surround Decoder ll, which is not cheap.

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MM

MM,

Thank you so much for chewing through the original.

I'd eaten too much Xmas pudding when I composed it and on re-reading there were too many words. I felt its density would put people off trying to help, so I edited it right down, removing my wife and thoughts on the BL17s in the process, and crossed my fingers 🙂

I am not wedded to my Sony but it is a great display in its own right: the KD-65X9005A might be coming up 10 years old now but has unusually good sound from integrated speakers:

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Being larger and heavier than any equivalent TV because of the integrated audio means I would have to sell it. It would not fit in the attic and it's not something you could put in any other room without that room suddenly seeming a whole lot smaller as a result.

Looking at the Multiplay Surround Decoder II manual, Almando's example application makes it all very clear:

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I'm assuming that by purchasing and connecting a B&O Core I cover the music side of things, in that the Almando arrangement then becomes a selectable destination inside the B&O app.

Again, thank you so much for alerting me to this: in all the research I'd done, it had simply not shown up!

Do people actually have a positive experience with the Transmitter 1? I've heard nothing but negative things.

Severed_Hand_of_Skywalker wrote:

Do people actually have a positive experience with the Transmitter 1? I've heard nothing but negative things.

I'm using it since more than 5y. Apart from conflicts with other 5 gHz transmitters that I removed from my setup, I must say that it is rock solid, even when not physically placed according to recommendations, e.g mine is too close to some of my speakers so it happens that the TR 1 orange light flashes, without any perceptible effects, or that speakers disconnect shortly (it happens once a year maybe ....).

What other sources caused problems?

WiFi hotspots

I was hoping you wouldn't say something ridiculous common like that. 

I live in a condo with 300 units all using 5ghz. I don't know anyones house that doesn't get at least 10 other wifi channels overlapping onto theirs.

But like you said. If you don't have wifi and live isolated... this is fantastic product.

P.S. LOL.