New house setup help needed

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ecco20 (archived2)
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Posted August 11, 2012 at 15:19 GMT
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I am setting up a new house and have the following B&O products

Lounge room  BeoVision 4-85, front speakers BeoLab 5 and centre BeoLab 10 back BeoLab3, BeoSound 5 and Beo6 remote

Next to the lounge I have a server Room that has everything wire back to it with Cat7,  Our Foxtel, DVD, server and switch are all in a rack

Main beadroom Beovision 10 and has a Sony DVD and FoxTel box connected by HDMI hidden away in the next room.  Also linked back to Server room by Cat7

Upstair landing has two BeoLab 4000 that are wired back to server room by Cat7 and have ther own active link in the server room with the eye in the landing area

kids upstairs lounge has BeoVision 4-65, front speakers BeoLab 8000 and centre BeoLab 7-2 back BeoLab 4000, Beocenter 2 and Beo6 remote

Laundry is next to the games room and there wiil be one BeoVox 2 in the Laundry and one BeoVox in the games room, both connected back to the server room by Cat7 to a BeoLink passive kit and an link eye between the two rooms.  Have not yet purchesed products for this room. Suggestions welcomed.

In the games room we have set up a stand alone Sony Bravia HX925 55" TV, Playstation3, Sony 3D Blu-Ray player BDPS790 and surround sound speakers, TV linked back to server room by Cat 7

Pool area has  two BeoVox 2 both connected back to the server room by Cat7 to a BeoLink passive kit and an link eye.

Alfresco area (fully inclosed) has a sony VPLVW95ES projector no sure what to do with this room.

A) Do I put two BeoLab 3 and connect them two the projector but how do I set it up so I can also get music from the rest of the B&O systems

B) Set this room up as a stand alone and put 5 B&W speakers with a surround sound amplifier?

Also we have set the house up with the Legrand Arteor home automation system and not sure how to link the B&O into it, maybe Master Link?

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Posted August 11, 2012 at 18:52 GMT
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Impressive home with a dream set-up.

Frank wrote:

Alfresco area (fully inclosed) has a sony VPLVW95ES projector no sure what to do with this room.

A) Do I put two BeoLab 3 and connect them two the projector but how do I set it up so I can also get music from the rest of the B&O systems

B) Set this room up as a stand alone and put 5 B&W speakers with a surround sound amplifier?

Two thoughts - or maybe 2.5 🙂

  • a Beosystem 3 to drive the projector, that drives the Beolab 3s (is cost the reason you would not add to these to get surround sound ?)
    • A Beovision 7 (especially given the current deal - you could put the bonus Beosound 8 in the laundry) that has a built-in Beosystem 3 that would give you the extra bonus of a smaller screen for casual use
  • a Beoactive that has the projector connected in as a local "PC" so you can switch the Beolabs between the home network of sources, and the projector

The advantage of having your other Actives in their specific rooms is that you could use the second approach for connect ad hoc sources such as some form of music dock

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ecco20 (archived2)
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Posted August 12, 2012 at 09:28 GMT
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Hi there elephant,

 

Yes price is the issue as my wife has said I have spent to much and thus the Beosystem 3 is not an option.  I am looking at making a change to the setup in the games room, the Sony HX925 is new and still in the box and a friend said he would buy it at what I paid for it. Thus I am looking at getting the Beoplay V1 40" and buying two passive links one for the front and one for the back speaker and thus using the internal speaker as the centre speaker.  This would give us surround sound but we would be dropping the TV size from 55" to 40", what do you think?

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