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Post 1 made on Sunday May 27, 2018 at 17:34
BCMTX
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Hello, Im looking for some equipment advice. This may be pretty basic for most. Still learning here.

I have basically a large room that will be a "residential sports bar/man cave". We have 12 speakers throughout on a 6 zone 12 channel amplifier. Initially the system was only going to be Audio only with Sonos. Things changed and now there will be 4 displays, 1 DTV Box and a Blu-ray player. Biggest issue is am looking for the most efficient way to use the 1 amp but to switch sound between the sources(Sonos, DTV, Blu-ray). Will more than likely use JAP and RTI for control. Any advice would be much appreciated.
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Post 2 made on Sunday May 27, 2018 at 20:55
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Is there any need for surround sound?
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OP | Post 3 made on Sunday May 27, 2018 at 20:59
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No need for surround sound. Just want to play the sound over the 6 zones of speakers.
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Post 4 made on Sunday May 27, 2018 at 21:38
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Hdmi switch with audio de embedding into the Sonos input?
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Post 5 made on Monday May 28, 2018 at 09:33
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Hire a pro? This is what they do for a living.
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Post 6 made on Monday May 28, 2018 at 09:39
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Yep do yourself a favor and allow the person you’re hiring to program the RTI handle the overall design and provide any additional equipment needed.
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Post 7 made on Monday May 28, 2018 at 17:00
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I agree with the others. This is a bit large of a project to be learning so much on. You need input, i.e. labor and design, from others. This is to assist the design, having a person with more experience able to see what to do and what to avoid, and to keep you out of trouble during the installation.
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Post 8 made on Tuesday May 29, 2018 at 10:42
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An AVR with preouts for L and R would be the most efficient IMHO. You could also use a stereo preamplifier, and use the proper JAP pieces to get analog audio from the source devices.
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Post 9 made on Tuesday May 29, 2018 at 13:25
andrewinboulder
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On May 27, 2018 at 17:34, BCMTX said...
Hello, Im looking for some equipment advice. This may be pretty basic for most. Still learning here.

I have basically a large room that will be a "residential sports bar/man cave". We have 12 speakers throughout on a 6 zone 12 channel amplifier. Initially the system was only going to be Audio only with Sonos. Things changed and now there will be 4 displays, 1 DTV Box and a Blu-ray player. Biggest issue is am looking for the most efficient way to use the 1 amp but to switch sound between the sources(Sonos, DTV, Blu-ray). Will more than likely use JAP and RTI for control. Any advice would be much appreciated.

In order to make suggestions, there would need to be more info on how much control you need of the various speakers.

In other words, will all the speakers play the same audio source material all the time? Or would there be different audio sources playing through different speakers at the same time?

Do any of the speakers need to be controllable volume wise independent of the other pairs or will all the speakers raise/lower at the same volume level together?
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OP | Post 10 made on Tuesday May 29, 2018 at 23:38
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On May 29, 2018 at 13:25, andrewinboulder said...
In order to make suggestions, there would need to be more info on how much control you need of the various speakers.

In other words, will all the speakers play the same audio source material all the time? Or would there be different audio sources playing through different speakers at the same time?

Same source all of the time.
Do any of the speakers need to be controllable volume wise independent of the other pairs or will all the speakers raise/lower at the same volume level together?

All will raise/lower at same time.
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Post 11 made on Wednesday May 30, 2018 at 14:01
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Personally I would use a Sony ES receiver w/ preouts for the 12ch amp. It will handle all the video sources via HDMI (for one TV, or all of them if they are all showing the same image)

You can do control however you want, RTI was mentioned.

Fringe benefit is that Sony ES has automatic Sonos integration when the zone is turned on in the Sonos app
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