Steve at Sounds Heavenly wrote:

 

Hi Bpfontes,

 

Thanks for posting the pictures.  As work is already in progress, it could be prudent to keep access to the cable routes open until you are sure of the way that everything will be connected.  If you can run spare shielded Cat 7 cables to each point from your central wiring hub/equipment cabinet, that will be a great help for "future proofing" when new technology comes out.

 

Hi Steve, absolutely, great advice, what we are doing is to run first flexible tubes everywhere, the cables will work inside it, so its just a matter of pulling them out and run newer cables. Since everything will be done inside walls and ceiling, we will install passages throughout the ceiling to organise and run all cabling, like in any big construction or industrial site, thus rendering any replacement or addition easier. We will also use in many cases large flexible tube, just in case, so thank you.  

 

To address your questions about which products will work together, the simple answer is that all of them can work together, if they are set up according to your needs.  The secret to a good installation is to be sure of what you want to achieve.

 

The best place to start is to sketch up a layout of the house, showing the rooms, speakers, TV, projectors, etc, plus any physical music players (eg. turntables).

 

Next, look at which audio and video sources need to be available in each room and add them to the sketch.  If you have a group of rooms where you will often pass through whilst listening to the same music (eg. kitchen, lounge, dining room) then you can mark these in together as a "zone" to ensure that you have access to your music from all speakers in these areas.

 

For B&O wireless multiroom music, there is no problem as you can simply select the music to be played on each speaker as required.  However, for Masterlink products, it can be helpful to identify where you wish to play the music to and control it from.

 

As an example, at home I have two "zones" for music, the first for my office and the rest covering the lounge, dining room, kids' playroom, master bedroom, family bathroom and ensuite bathroom.  This is because there will only ever be one music source playing in the main area of the house (and my wife likes to be able to go from room to room without losing the music), but I may have something different playing in the office at the same time.

 

If you share the house with other people, their viewing and listening habits should be considered as well, for example if one person will play the turntable in the music room while you play CDs from the Beosound 9000 in the lounge, etc.

 

I agree, thank you, what I will do then in the coming days, I will work on the project plants and will place every equipment in its intended location and will try and create a graphic of what I want to work, where and how, as per your advise and will then share it with you guys and see what can be done or/and what should I look into instead.

 

Hope this helps!  Please ask if you have any questions.

 

Kind regards, Steve.

 

Kiran wrote:

Your BS Cores will have multiroom play...

 

 

The BeoAmp 16 gives you up to 1 or 8 zones depending on how you divide the input...

 

 

Split the Powerlink to RCA signal from your BS Core to the zones you want to power...

 

 

It’s up to you how you divide the 8 zones...

 

 

I hope this makes sense...

Got it! Makes perfect sense, I guess I will be spending a small car money on BS Cores...😊

Hi chucky,

Audio cables won't cause any delay, but you will get sound quality loss over 100 metres, even with good quality cable.  Analogue audio cables should ideally be kept as short as possible for the best sound quality, sensible targets are less than 50m for Masterlink (balanced audio), less than 20m for Powerlink and line level audio, or less than 10m for amplified (speaker level) audio.

Kind regards, Steve.

Thank you for such a detailed post and pics. Looks really amazing and equipped. I am currently in search of

Making way for the Beo 9000, I'm still inlove with this system, surely one of the best designs by B&0 till today

Making way for the Beo 8000, one side done, one to go

Replacing the new sockets for.....newer ones! :))