Switches used for all of the equipment ????

[MurphysLaw]

One of the problems that our system has is that we are using an impact switch 6x2. The installer said that most people trade up for 8 in, 8 out.

Do you all have this? So all of your tvs can watch different things?

How do your sound systems play different music in each room? Right now, I only have the choice of playing one type of music (media, Pandora or Rhapsody ot TV or Blu-ray if I want) throughout the house. If I do not want something to play in a specific room, I have to physically turn down the speakers in that room.

Thoughts? Is this normal?

[henniae]

How do your sound systems play different music in each room? Right now, I only have the choice of playing one type of music (media, Pandora or Rhapsody ot TV or Blu-ray if I want) throughout the house. If I do not want something to play in a specific room, I have to physically turn down the speakers in that room.

Thoughts? Is this normal?

From what you have described you do not have a multi-zone amplifier for your music. If you have local volume controls in each room you probably have a single zone amp.

To listen to different sources in different rooms you need a multi-zone amp. C4 makes several models of multi-zone amps that will allow you to play different sources in different rooms as well as control all the sources and rooms individually from your remotes and touch screens.

[ILoveC4]

It is all how you set it up. I have an 8X8 audio/video matrix switch, and I also have Control4 8 zone amp, which has 8 inputs and a built in matrix switch.

What you have now isn't wrong, just different (and less capable). Who knows why it was designed that way....did you give them a specific budget they had to work around?