Sunday, January 13, 2008

Multiroom Audio

OK, so phase 1 of implementation, my Marantz SR5600 amp supports multiroom audio and control through a serial port...

Firstly I have ordered a second sound-card (Auzentech X-Plosion 7.1 PCI), so I can have "Travis" playing in the living room on sound-card 1 and "Groove Armada" playing outside using sound-card 2 using the same HTPC.

I will pick up and install a pair of suitable speakers.

I haven't decided which playback software to use, initially this will run on Windows Vista.

As for serial port control, I will use this to configure initial inputs, outputs and volume levels on the amp when the music server boots up...

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