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A lot hooked up at one time

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I don't but I was wondering if anyone had multiple sets of speakers going at one time and how many amps going at the same time to support them. I know surrounds have around 5 and quad systems 4 but do you have more then those setups?
 
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When I run sound from my computer right now, it runs into a Sansui QRX-777 that has two Polk Monitor 10's, two JBL 4311's and two Pioneer HPM-100's hooked to it. That is fed from the discrete analog outs on a Soundblaster Audigy ZS PCI card. The digital out on that same card feeds a Logitech Z-5500 amp which is 5.1 surround.

So, in all, that makes eleven speakers and one 10" powered subwoofer in an 11" by 11" room.

Before I sold my Cambridge Soundworks 5.1 setup a few months ago I had that running as well, for sixteen speakers and two subwoofers total, but the Cambridge were these little black box surround satellites with piss poor sound quality. All midrange.

My friends call it the "wall of sound" but my girlfriend calls it something totally different!

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xoaphexox said:
When I run sound from my computer right now, it runs into a Sansui QRX-777 that has two Polk Monitor 10's, two JBL 4311's and two Pioneer HPM-100's hooked to it. That is fed from the discrete analog outs on a Soundblaster Audigy ZS PCI card. The digital out on that same card feeds a Logitech Z-5500 amp which is 5.1 surround.
So, in all, that makes eleven speakers and one 10" powered subwoofer in an 11" by 11" room.
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That sounds like a far out system xoaphexox.
 
At the present I have a pair of polk sda's being run from a luxman pre bose power amp. A sansui 1000a powers a pair of sp3500's. A pioneer 9100 integrated runs a pair of electrovoice console speakers and a dual 12" m+k sub. And a sansui g8000 is pushing a pair of infinity quantum 3's. Each set of speakers is controlled by it's own pre amp and amp and they're all fed from the same source via tape outs. I can pretty much taylor the sound exactly as the mood strikes at the particular time. This is all in a room 15x16. Only downside is sometimes I end up tayloring the sound a little too much and not sitting back and just plain listening.
 
Right now I have 4 sets of speakers running through a selector switch driven by a Sansui QRX-7001 on one side of the LR (16x18) and on the other side a Sansui G-6000 driving 2 other sets of speakers. My CD/DVD has 2 outputs that run to both receivers. I can have any combination of the six sets playing, or all, while watching Movies, TV or listening to CD's.
 
Another impressive amount of speakers Rod. Are they all Sansui speakers? I bet you and the others on this thread can make the windows rattle.:o I only have 2 speakers and a sub but I am thinking of adding another pair sometime. It would be nice.
 
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I have in the living room 2 75" DIY BG linesource planars, 2 LARGE sonotube 12" subs, 2 rear ambience speakers, driven respectively from 1) a nakamichi 730 2) an Adcom 555 II 3) Kenwood KRV-8050 rec'vr, which also drives 1)Front porch 10" homebrew ib coaxials, 2 sunroom 10" homebrew coaxials, 3) 2 outdoor 8" RatShack wedg-ies, and isobaric 10" DIY subwoofer, 2) JBL 2600's in the entry hall...:banana:

Upstairs, in the movie room, I have 2 modified Infinity RSII's for mains, 2 more DIY sonotube subs, 2 Advent 6200's for rear left/right, driven by 2 more nakamichi 730's (150 w/ch) and a motorola DSP something or other Dolby Digital rec'vr w 5/100w/ch.....:D

http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=29712&d=1162764856

Oh.. also have homebrew modded wedgies in the garage driven by any one of the above amps...

John L.
 

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Thank you for the reference link to the nice information Zilch however I still think the freakishness factor outweighs your cancellation and cross band factor. I have heard a lot of systems with more then one pair of speakers and I think the freakishness factor is far out and still I would love to have another 1 or 2 pairs of speakers. You know people what I,m talking about the real life application as opposed to the scientific theories and formulas.

freakishness factor : subjective to the individual but has a mixture of direction confusion and direction variance. Also has added volume and change of certain frequencies that gives a unique sound when looking for one. Also if one blows you got a back-up especially when you got an extra amp. A sound processor can do some of this and more but not all. So a sound processor or two on top of the multiple speakers would be great fun especially for loud rock.
 
I know where you are coming from, playman. Some people like accuracy and imaging, and others just like to reproduce the environment of a live concert or just plain dance around the house rocking out. After all, its not like you go to a rock concert and up on the stage are only two speakers..

edit: read zilch's post, esp. the part about distance making stacks become point sources. My room is not that big unfortunately :)
 
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Did some one say multiple speakers ???

:scratch2: Well here was an old pic. I now run just my Q3's, Q5's, and JBL's. with 2 SX1250's and 2 KR9600's... :music:
This area is 24' x 16' since I reduced the amount of speakers and added the power the sound is much better. Just running a couple Q3's and Q5's in the front only gives great imaging, and when you want to really rock. Turn it up, !!!! Well I have to confess, this is my testing ground for amps and speakers that I work on. The picture is being taken from my work bench which, "according to the wife" "Don't show that side of the room!"
 
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Holy freaking crap. Stick a minifridge and a toilet in that room and I would probably never leave.
 
playman said:
Thank you for the reference link to the nice information Zilch however I still think the freakishness factor outweighs your cancellation and cross band factor. I have heard a lot of systems with more then one pair of speakers and I think the freakishness factor is far out and still I would love to have another 1 or 2 pairs of speakers. You know people what I,m talking about the real life application as opposed to the scientific theories and formulas.
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xoaphexox said:
I know where you are coming from, playman. Some people like accuracy and imaging, and others just like to reproduce the environment of a live concert or just plain dance around the house rocking out. After all, its not like you go to a rock concert and up on the stage are only two speakers..
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NObody, in fact, pays more precise and specific attention to these factors than live/tour sound providers. Their job is to present the desired listening "experience" to the entire audience. It's what arrays are all about, an you'll note there's typically but TWO of them.

There's no denying the fun factor in messing with this stuff, but let's not pretend for a minute that any of it more closely approximates the original performance than the recording as produced by the professionals when played in the manner they intended.

If the purpose, as stated, is to "enhance" the experience by adulterating the music, that's fine, too. Much of it rather sucks to begin with, anyway. But it's certainly self-deceptive, if not outright disingenuous, to be waving the "It's the MUSIC, stupid!" flag while dancing around the fire in your underwear and face paint.... :p:
 
Wow sicman! Remember when I thought I had a line on some q2's and you thought you needed em? I'm wondering how you would've squeezed them into that awesome display? Playman sometimes the "freakishness factor" comes into play but that's usually after a few adult beverages on a given weekend. My theory is sometimes I just feel like hearing some tube magic, other times I like hearing the sda effect, quite often I'll just play the ev's that have no crossover because they're different, then there's the times I need to hear the pinpoint imaging of the q3's. Combining all the above into the right sound usually is quite a hassle and is best left to when I have a fair amount of time to dial it in.
 
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...me getting ready to dance to some Zeppelin
 
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