Marantz auido over electrical wiring

Tsunamii

Tsunamii

Full Audioholic
Just read this on engadge and thought Id pass it along...

"Marantz has a new solution for audio distribution in the home: use the power lines. Yeah, ok, RadioShack has been carrying a range of questionable HomePlug 1.0 solutions for years but this is Marantz dambit, and it's proprietary so it must be good...right? Their solution dubbed DAvED (Digital Audio via Electrical Distribution) will rollout this March in a $1,300 system which combines their new 7-channel ZR6001 audio-video receiver (pictured) with a ZC4001 remote speaker client. The 90 watt/channel ZR6001 can handle up to six DAvED clients, will switch high-definition video and is capable of pumping out 7.1 Dolby Digital/DTS. The ZC4001 client can be dropped anyplace you have power and features two speakers, an aux-input (for MP3 players and such), virtual surround, and a display which apparently only shows the source, not track info. Ok Marantz, we get it, why go HomePlug AV which should be hitting the streets about the same time when you can lock us into your components for life."

http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/09/marantz-vr6001-and-zc4001-multi-room-audio-over-electrical-wiri/
 
j_garcia

j_garcia

Audioholic Jedi
It's been around for a while for networking, so it would seem logical for it to spread to audio with all the digital music stuff going on these days.
 
Jack Hammer

Jack Hammer

Audioholic Field Marshall
j_garcia said:
It's been around for a while for networking, so it would seem logical for it to spread to audio with all the digital music stuff going on these days.
How is the sound quality? What about the electricity putting spikes or something into it and blowing your speakers?

Besides these and a few other concerns, it sounds like a great way to avoid having wires all over the place.
 
j_garcia

j_garcia

Audioholic Jedi
Jack Hammer said:
How is the sound quality? What about the electricity putting spikes or something into it and blowing your speakers?

Besides these and a few other concerns, it sounds like a great way to avoid having wires all over the place.
It's just a method for transmitting data. I haven't tried it because it is somewhat bandwidth limited for networking - data rates aren't as high as wireless. You don't have to worry about power spikes to the system, because it is signal only. Not sure about networking, but I would think audio would be somewhat degraded by this method of transmission.
 
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