Home Speaker Connector / Receiver

[James_3201]

We bought a house with speakers in the ceiling (wires come out at central location so good so far). There are 11 speakers - 2 outside, 2 dining room, 2 bedroom and 5 in the family room. I want to buy a speaker selector with greatest flexibility. Controls already exist on walls of each room (and for outside). I also want a network receiver that will work with the selector and speakers and I keep reading things like overloading and this and that (which I do not understand). Thinking of buying Niles HPS-6 Speaker Selector and Onkyo TX-8160 Network Stereo Receiver - will this work together easily? Any other suggestions welcome - want to keep it under $1000 for Selector and Receiver. Thanks so much. James

 

[americanaudiophile]

That stereo receiver is OK for the 3 zones of stereo speakers but won't work for 5 surround sound speakers in the family room. You would need an additional 5.1 channel surround sound receiver. I suspect there is no in wall volume control for that room.
If you get a 7.1 channel receiver with powered zone 2 and the Niles speaker selector that will work for all the rooms. When the receiver is set up you assign a pair of speaker outputs as zone 2 and connect the speaker selector there.
http/www.onkyousa.com/Products/model.php?m=TX-NR555&class=Receiver&source=prodClass
If you don't want surround sound but did want 4 speakers to play in the family room you would need a larger speaker selector.
https/www.amazon.com/Pair-Speaker-Selector-Discontinued-Manufacturer/dp/B0006V72FY
You might also require a more robust amp to drive all those speakers than the one built into the receiver. Depends on how many you play at once and how loud you want them to play.

 

[James_3201]

That stereo receiver is OK for the 3 zones of stereo speakers but won't work for 5 surround sound speakers in the family room. You would need an additional 5.1 channel surround sound receiver. I suspect there is no in wall volume control for that room.
If you get a 7.1 channel receiver with powered zone 2 and the Niles speaker selector that will work for all the rooms. When the receiver is set up you assign a pair of speaker outputs as zone 2 and connect the speaker selector there.
http/www.onkyousa.com/Products/model.php?m=TX-NR555&class=Receiver&source=prodClass
If you don't want surround sound but did want 4 speakers to play in the family room you would need a larger speaker selector.
https/www.amazon.com/Pair-Speaker-Selector-Discontinued-Manufacturer/dp/B0006V72FY
You might also require a more robust amp to drive all those speakers than the one built into the receiver. Depends on how many you play at once and how loud you want them to play.

Thanks for this - I see that now - there are three "yellow wire pairs" marked for the 3 rooms (master, Dining, patio) and 5 purple wires - where would the 5 surround sound wires output? Right from the 7.1? So assuming that's true, there will be 5 outputs from receiver for surround then a "control 2" that would house the speaker selector that would handle the 3 rooms?

Thanks again - my usual comment applies to something like this (for me) "this is why God invented check books and credit cards"...haha...