| Post 1 made on Sunday August 19, 2007 at 07:47 |
markrubin Founding Member |
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I want to upgrade my Elan HD system which is max'd out at 10 zones:
I could add another Elan HD unit but am wondering what you guys use for whole house audio? I think the Elan HD is discontinued
Looking for something that integrates easily with RTI Touchpads: amps can be separate or built in (already have separate Audio Architect multzone amps)
Have been looking at the Speakercraft MZC-88: using two of them would work: but it seems to lack a tone generator for doorbell? I need the doorbell function but it only seems to provide for a doorbell mute?
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| Post 2 made on Sunday August 19, 2007 at 12:17 |
roddymcg Loyal Member |
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B&K CT series products are at the top of my short list.
We did a few of the Speakercrat MZ-66 and had a bunch of failures, they even sent a replacement and the power button did not work. D'oh
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| Post 3 made on Sunday August 19, 2007 at 13:20 |
cheesehead22 Long Time Member |
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I personaly like the Elan s Series. 2 S12 stacked would give you 16 zones (8 Apiece stackable up to 32). Plus you can integrate a doorbell into it via the Z600. The S Series is very easy to control RS232 also.
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| Post 4 made on Sunday August 19, 2007 at 20:12 |
The8thst Long Time Member |
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I have had OK luck with the MZC series and have really reliable control of them through their RSA 232 adapter.
For the doorbell I use the Niles DBI-1 doorbell interface. It has two contact closures and each can be set to one of the 6 or 8 pre-programmed doorbell tones and it has either a contact closure or 12v output trigger. This unit feeds the doorbell input of the MZC or an unused input on the B&K and the 12v trigger initiates the doorbell sequence in the multiroom controller to switch to the door bell input for 3 or 4 seconds and then back to whatever it was doing.
If you have a choice, I would take the B&K over the MZC, Russound, Xantech, etc Chinese manufactured multiroom system in a heartbeat any day of the week.
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| Post 5 made on Sunday August 19, 2007 at 22:45 |
ceied Loyal Member |
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Ada suite 16....they have a doorbell thingy and the elan doorbell thingy works with it as well
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