INSTRUCTIONS!?!?!?!?!

Who looks at those? I never bothered to look. ;-)

Thanks, I'll check'm out.

...just started with them and placed my first order. You can deal Autopatch without becoming an AMX dealer.

...checked out the new offerings comming from NeoPro at Cedia. They look cool... switchers with component and audio utilizing CAT5 outputs with Balun receivers on the destination end (I was asking for this last year!) at prices more reasonable than some others with similar features.

B&K is a great piece of gear and has a lot discretes. B&K's website has RTI database for all the product. Go to support then downloads

Knox has a larger multi zone component over cat 5 switcher coming out november-ish, it has localized audio switching

I use NeoPro and like the product a lot. Only thing missing is that it can't control volume too. If it could then I wouldn't need too look at Knox. But Neo doesn't... BTW I HAVE HAD NO ISSUES WITH 3 BORREGOS! Can't say that about the manufacture they replaced.

I like Yamaha 2700 up to 3 rooms since we have great codes for it (take a look).
for 6 Z by 4 S i like sonace DAB 1, great 232 ,very ez to controle.
for 6 by 6 you can try Elan ,Nevo, Speaker craft, non of them too good.
as the other dude said the knox is the best by far ; good sound good video very very good 232

good luck
Dan

I disagree on the Speakercraft comment. It's very reliable from either an IR controlled or RS-232 standpoint. Not to mention it has powerful internal logic capabilities that can be taken advantage of along with video distribution.

I have a huge amount of bad luck with the Speakercraft product lateley. 3 out of 4 of our Mz-66's went bad, then one of our replacements was bad out of the box.

Guys,

those of you that do multi-room audio with RTI please explain how you deal with the one way (no feedback) problem. What I mean is how do you program your systems? For example if the user goes and starts a cd player from the wall keypads or touchpanels and then then picks up a T3 to change a song and link the zone to the whole house,how do you make the keypads with remote syncronise without interrupting operation of the system? Can you please send me some multiroom program examples?

You can't monitor status of RTI or their touchpanels currently. This is what you need 2-way for.

I can send you something later if you prefer, 28 zones of audio, and 3 different zones of video with a bunch of T3's, K4's, and RK3's. Our first proposal included Crestron, but they did not want to spend that much. So this in my opinion is a decent compromise...

Roddy,

please send it to me. We usually use AMX but sometimes we have to go with the RTI option and I am not 100% sure I can make a mult-room system simple enough to be used with a one way control system.

I recently did a 18-zone system with those marantz amps and a RP6. (Well, actually two RP6's, but that's a different story)

Worked out fine. The only thing I don't like is that the marantz amps go to 0 after a power failure, as I am doing the volume control thru the autopatch switcher instead of the amps, so I had to program in a failsafe.

Thank's MrBeetle!

That's good to know......

Is Marantz getting rid of the amp? They took it out of the demo rack at the distro.

First of all what is a CD player?

We generally use music /DVD servers, one advantage to this, is that you get a visual representation of what is going on with that particular source. That said, there is no need to sync anything. If for example someone is listening to an iPod in a dock in the kitchen and they want to hear that same tune in the living room as well, they simply select "living room"-> iPod and what ever is playing on the iPod will now be heard there. Do you really need to be told what song is playing, do you really need to be told that the play button was pressed while you are standing there listening to the music


RTI guys have for years come up simple solutions to incorporate the products into people’s homes and businesses, We have never had bi directional anything so our way of thinking and doing has evolved from these roots.


AMX / Crestron guys are all stuck on this idea that everything has to follow everything else, when in reality, this is not really necessary. I follow the principle that everything is independent yet still can drink from a common pool .


Honestly, Why should the remote in the office reflect what is going on in the kitchen or the master bedroom, what’s the point other than showing off a bunch of fancy graphics?

Why would you need a bi directional response from a plasma TV? If everything was designed and working right to begin with, this would be a non-issue.


You must unlearn what you have learned “Yoda”