Bose Ceiling and Beoamp 2

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k984942 (archived2)
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Posted April 11, 2018 at 16:04 GMT
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I'm moving into a new (rented) home which has 4 Bose ceiling speaker (1 per bedroom). There's a mess of speaker cables coming out of the ceiling in a small utility room.

I'm taking my trusty BV7 + 8002's to the new home with me.

What I'm looking for is a multi-room system. The way I see it is I have 2 options:

1. Bose

Bose do an amp with multi-room capability. I'd add a few Bose speakers to the other rooms that don't have ceiling speakers, and hey presto, I'd have music throughout the house. This would be relatively inexpensive, but means my 8002's are nothing more than TV speakers (seems a waste) and having another speaker in the living room (Bose). I'm not a huge Bose fan, but one could argue this is the logical solution when the speakers in my ceiling are Bose.

2. B&O

I assume a Beoamp 2 + Beosound core would sort out the ceiling speakers, although the amp says 2 channel only and I have 4 ceiling speakers. Does anyone know if that'd work?

I'd also need something for the BV7 + 8002's so they can join the multi-room family. Not sure what I'd need there.

Finally, a couple of M2's or M5s to round off the system.

Thoughts / experiences / advice?

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neilgk175 (archived2)
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Posted April 11, 2018 at 16:48 GMT
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I don't know if Bose makes in ceiling stereo speakers, my fear would be that you have a left in one room and a right in the other or will have to run all the speakers in mono.

Is there volume controls in all the rooms with in ceiling speakers? If so you could do one core and an amp and have a single stream to all of the rooms and control volume with the volume controls in the walls, the better option would be to do a beoamp16 and a core for each zone you have.

I believe you can add a core to the BV7 as well to join the multi room music system.

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k984942 (archived2)
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Posted April 11, 2018 at 16:57 GMT
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There is a volume control knob in each room where theres a speaker.

So one beoamp can run all 4?

 

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neilgk175 (archived2)
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Posted April 12, 2018 at 14:58 GMT
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I haven't ran four speakers off of it before but I wouldn't see why it wouldn't work. I'm sure there would be a big performance drop off since it's only a 2 channel amp

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k984942 (archived2)
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Posted May 9, 2018 at 15:02 GMT
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So its confirmed that the 4 Bose ceiling speakers are mono :-(

Will the Beoamp 2 therefore power two as left channels and 2 as right?

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neilgk175 (archived2)
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Posted May 9, 2018 at 15:33 GMT
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That is correct. I would recommend doing a multi channel amplifier that can process the speakers as mono and add 4 beosound cores to control each room. The one I have used in the past for this situation is a sonance dsp8130

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