have to start somewhere

[nickg333]

I am going to design/purchase and set up a new sound system for my parents house. I consider myself savy when it comes to car audio, but have not dealt much with home audio. What I want to do is have a game room for movies/sporting events for a place to hang out, and have speakers placed throuhout the house for entertainment purposes and just to play music throughout the house. could i do both from just one receiver? what am i looking at? if i could keep everything up in the game room, is there any way to control the volume from another room, across the house? there are a lot of questions in this thread but i need to start somewhere. Thanks for the help

 

[jaxvon]

Welcome! The first steps are to lay out some numbers.

What is the overall budget for this project?
How large is the game room?
Is this a new house, or going into an exisitng house?
How many rooms will you be pumping audio into?

 

[Rocky]

there isnt much we can do without the questions mentioned above. but one thing is for sure, i wouldnt recomend a receiver for pumping audio throughout the house, a separate power amp would do a much better job

 

[Resident Loser]

While there may be other options...

I am going to design/purchase and set up a new sound system for my parents house. I consider myself savy when it comes to car audio, but have not dealt much with home audio. What I want to do is have a game room for movies/sporting events for a place to hang out, and have speakers placed throuhout the house for entertainment purposes and just to play music throughout the house. could i do both from just one receiver? what am i looking at? if i could keep everything up in the game room, is there any way to control the volume from another room, across the house? there are a lot of questions in this thread but i need to start somewhere. Thanks for the help

...given the complexity of your plans, you may want to consider systems from Russound or Niles...they are designed for multi-area/remote operation and have sources/amps/switching devices/speakers to accomplish these things.

Receivers/separates? IMO the point is moot, as consumer level (even high-end) gear is really not designed for such applications. Yeah, you could cobble together some mishmash of hardware but...

As noted, some number-crunching and specificity is in order.

jimHJJ(...good luck...)