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| Topic: | help me with multi room controller selection please This thread has 12 replies. Displaying all posts. |
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| Post 1 made on Monday August 8, 2011 at 07:24 |
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I am again considering replacing my personal Elan HD system that is obsolete My requirements are: 6 sources/12 zones (I have external amps if needed) Must be compatible with RTI 2 way drivers and RK3 touchpads via XP8 ethernet programmable doorbell tone generator required So far it looks like the Russound E series with a zone expander is at the top of the list: could anyone comment if the E series will meet all above requirements and if there are other models that I could consider? TIA
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| Post 2 made on Monday August 8, 2011 at 10:19 |
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Have a customer with a 24 zone system using 4 x Sonance 4630's. Mix of K4, RK3 and RK1 keypads. Feedback works great, very responsive.
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| OP | Post 3 made on Monday August 8, 2011 at 10:40 |
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On August 8, 2011 at 10:19, kgossen said...
Have a customer with a 24 zone system using 4 x Sonance 4630's. Mix of K4, RK3 and RK1 keypads. Feedback works great, very responsive. If the Sonance could do 6 input sources (I would use 2 of them for 12 zones) it would be on my list: from reading it seems limited to 4 sources even if 2 units are used
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| Post 4 made on Monday August 8, 2011 at 15:52 |
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Expensive but two Zektor clarity audio 8x8's and a Zektor z27. Best combination possible in my opinion.
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| Post 5 made on Monday August 8, 2011 at 17:28 |
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Elan S86A or S86P, (A=Amplified, P=Preamp) Its a 8 source, 6 zone stackable unit to 24 zones. RTI has a driver built for it as well.
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| Post 6 made on Monday August 8, 2011 at 20:46 |
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On August 8, 2011 at 17:28, Crazyone said...
Elan S86A or S86P, (A=Amplified, P=Preamp) Its a 8 source, 6 zone stackable unit to 24 zones. RTI has a driver built for it as well.
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| OP | Post 7 made on Tuesday August 9, 2011 at 08:33 |
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Thanks for the suggestion about the Elan S86P: I ordered one to check it out: it seems like the easiest transition from the HD unit and has RTI 2 way drivers
what do you recommend for a doorbell tone generator?
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| Post 8 made on Tuesday August 9, 2011 at 09:10 |
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On August 8, 2011 at 10:40, markrubin said...
If the Sonance could do 6 input sources (I would use 2 of them for 12 zones) it would be on my list: from reading it seems limited to 4 sources even if 2 units are used I should pay more attention when reading posts. Sorry about that.
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| Post 9 made on Tuesday August 9, 2011 at 09:13 |
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ELK makes great doorball hardware
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| Post 10 made on Tuesday August 9, 2011 at 09:40 |
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a C2 , Com2, or Z600, they integrate VERY easily with the S86, otherwise I have used a Niles DBI-2, which is a bit more tricky to interface with, but works pretty well and $300. ALthough you can find a com2, and z600 for ~ The same money on ebay used.
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| OP | Post 11 made on Tuesday August 9, 2011 at 11:40 |
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Thanks
I will buy a Z600 off Ebay
does the expansion cable come with each S86?
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| Post 12 made on Tuesday August 9, 2011 at 20:49 |
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Yea if your talking about the IR expansion cable, used to share IR between units, and to a G! system (HC6, and HC12, NOT HC4 and HC12)
You wouldn't really be using it on a RTI setup though. The S86 doesn't acutally store any IR codes in it, it is just a pass through, so in your case your IR control (which all the expansion cable is) would come from your Xp8, and control the S86's(via RS232), and you would be controlling just the zone source input and zone volume.
Basically you would use a straight through 232 cable (or in the XP8's case the cat5 with a 568a pinout) and the RTI supplied 232 end. All IR to control sources would come from the XP8, ore the XP8 expansion (if you needed more than 8 IR outputs )
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| OP | Post 13 made on Thursday August 18, 2011 at 16:37 |
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Crazone
Thanks for the explanation
still if anyone has a spare ELAN S12XK Expansion Kit I would be interested in buying one: please email or PM me
Mark
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