SMcLean Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 What is everyone using for Amps?Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danlevine Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 We are about to test the C4 Amp on an Install. Other than that we are using Onkyo, Denon and HK Receivers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hbinnovations Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 For distrbuted audio or critical listening? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AS2 Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 I'm looking for a good alternative to the C4 amp for only 3 stereo zones. Anyone have good product suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrikinCurt Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 3 zones you may want to look at speaker points.Curt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfleck Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 AS2,how are you planning on controlling the zones? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AS2 Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 Speaker points! I thought of that myself today on the subway. Here is one thing I can't seem to find a good solution to, a bedroom with in-ceiling speakers but no touchpanel or tv screen. I need to figure out how to control that zone's music. Maybe just put another system remote in there to access the sources? how do other's deal with that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hbinnovations Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 Marantz has a great 3 zone amp, the ZS5300 that we use for smaller jobs. We built a driver for it and it works great integrated with C4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AS2 Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 hb,that one looks great - love Marantz. I might try that one - do you see many major advantages over just using three C4 speaker points. The ones I could guess are, power & robustness. Any opinion? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SMcLean Posted March 17, 2006 Author Share Posted March 17, 2006 For distributed, the C4 AMP does not ship to Canada. I am looking for recomendations for decent quality at moderate cost. Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hbinnovations Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 The Marantz amp is a great piece. As you mentioned, the power and robustness are there if you need to run 4 speakers per zone in parallel or tie multiple zones together that way. As I mentioned though, it is only food for smaller music distribution projects. They are cascadable as well (up to three), but then you start running into cost vs. function and that is where we use the C4 amp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hbinnovations Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 Whoops, sorry for the reference to food in that last post. Must be lunch time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
All Wired Up! Posted March 18, 2006 Share Posted March 18, 2006 C4 speaker points also have a delay so they aren't good in area where you can hear the same audio stream via analog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATOH Posted March 22, 2006 Share Posted March 22, 2006 I second the Marantz ZS5300. IR input on the back, discretes for everything, works great for smaller systems. I have one in my own house and we've installed 3 others with Control4 HTCs running it. ! We built a driver using a Marantz receiver and building 3 individual drivers, 1 for each zone. hbinnovations, how did you build yours? I had problems with not having the "proxy to tuner" not being in the driver. It was a pain the first time around but now it works fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hbinnovations Posted March 22, 2006 Share Posted March 22, 2006 That hasn't been an issue for us as our installs with the ZS5300 have only required the MC as an input. Pretty simple driver for us. Turn on/off, mute, and volume up/down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATOH Posted March 22, 2006 Share Posted March 22, 2006 Ah, that might make it easier. We used the input switching in it. Maybe that's why. You used the inputs for each individual zone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hbinnovations Posted March 22, 2006 Share Posted March 22, 2006 The setup that comes to mind is this. 1 MC, 2 ZS5300's (cascaded), 6 zones, each zone with a rotary VC and a pair of in-ceiling speakers. The customer wanted music streaming off the MC all day, everyday as this is in a doctor's office. We outputted the MC to input 1 on the ZS5300 and then outputted that ZS5300 to another input on the second ZS5300. I hope that made sense. As for input switching, why not do that on the MC and not on the ZS5300? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATOH Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 You mean the 3 outputs from the MC into the 3 zone inputs and put any analog sources into the MC first right?For 1 of the systems client wanted sat receiver, FM tuner, and a Rockola Jukebox for sources.One another, they wanted sat. receiver, XM, and 1 stream.For my own, I have 1 stream, sat, and XM.Those are a couple times that we have used it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATOH Posted March 26, 2006 Share Posted March 26, 2006 Since we were discussing amps, I came up with a better way of doing this (I think). I'm going to use the A/V Switch "device type" to build this amp and a SpeakerCraft MZC-66 to see if the A/V switch format will work better for this without the "proxy tuner" issue I have come across. Has anyone integrated a MZC-66 into a project?Do you think that this approach would work better? It's basically building a matrix switch, which makes sense, and it gives me all of the room connections just like the Control4 amplifier has... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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