I am a new forum member and am seeking advice. I am in the early stages of building a custom house and I know that I want whole house audio. I want a fairly basic system. in wall speakers in probably 6-8 rooms with individual volume controls in each room. I currently use itunes as my music library and love the iphone remote. I know that if you use airport express you can select different sets of speakers, but you must have an airport express and "powered" speakers in each room. What I plan to do is have a speaker switching box to switch between the different rooms. I have a 200 watt adcom amp to power the whole system.
What I am looking for is a speaker selector box that I could control with the iphone remote. From my research this does not exist yet. I have seen the ab8ss speaker selector that I believe has an infrared remote available.
Look forward to your advice. Thanks.
No takers so far to have a stab at this.
I don't think there will be an iphone app for what you want to do, at least one that does not require jail breaking your iphone.
Apple nixed an app for Slingbox recently.
I think if you want to use ab8ss, you would want to use it with a wireless
pronto device.
If you do build a system, put all cabling in conduit, so the system can be revised without removing your walls.
You really might want to review whole house audio systems. They seem trendy, but I think they are not used for long. In my opinion they are a nasty artifact of the modern age.
I think you you be better off putting a good home theater system in one room. If you need some other rooms, then run those via the Adcom from the zone two output of the main system. Volume controls in the remote rooms should be sufficient.