Hi guys,
I am hoping to get some help on a somewhat unique, and possibly fun problem. I have a large shop that floats, 100ft by about 30 wide and 30 tall. It has an upper walkways as well as a lower walkway with room for boats to park inside. I am trying to configure a relatively inexpensive system for it as it is a shop. This outstrips my expertise by a bit. Two options. Redesign the entire system, in which case disregard the rest of this and just give me some ideas. The other option is here: I need to drive eight speakers, 2 pairs of Polk Atrium 5s, one set of Poly Planar speakers and another set of somethings (not sure yet but they will most likely be ~80 watt). The problem is that some speakers have 100ft+ cable runs on Radio Shack cable, others 50ft runs on Radio Shack cable and some with 10ft lengths of the same cable. In order to get the 100ft runs I had to spice cables, adding even MORE resistance to the runs.
Heres the big question: I need an amp that can drive the very inefficient Polks and push the 100ft plus runs on bad cable. This leads me to believe I need about 150 watts per channel on a surround amp, or I can use the Niles speaker selection system I have to drive all the speakers off of 2 massively powerful channels (300 watt channels). It also needs the capability to run a sub.
Any help would be great!
I am hoping to get some help on a somewhat unique, and possibly fun problem. I have a large shop that floats, 100ft by about 30 wide and 30 tall. It has an upper walkways as well as a lower walkway with room for boats to park inside. I am trying to configure a relatively inexpensive system for it as it is a shop. This outstrips my expertise by a bit. Two options. Redesign the entire system, in which case disregard the rest of this and just give me some ideas. The other option is here: I need to drive eight speakers, 2 pairs of Polk Atrium 5s, one set of Poly Planar speakers and another set of somethings (not sure yet but they will most likely be ~80 watt). The problem is that some speakers have 100ft+ cable runs on Radio Shack cable, others 50ft runs on Radio Shack cable and some with 10ft lengths of the same cable. In order to get the 100ft runs I had to spice cables, adding even MORE resistance to the runs.
Heres the big question: I need an amp that can drive the very inefficient Polks and push the 100ft plus runs on bad cable. This leads me to believe I need about 150 watts per channel on a surround amp, or I can use the Niles speaker selection system I have to drive all the speakers off of 2 massively powerful channels (300 watt channels). It also needs the capability to run a sub.
Any help would be great!