I'm undergoing a remodel and am going to have walls and ceilings opened up.So, I was going to putter a better whole house system. Initially, I was going to put in just a new dual zone receiver, a monster speaker selector, and the impedence switches in a few rooms and try to connect the house in this way.
All of this was going to run to 2 pairs of Polk RC8's ceiling speakers and 1 pair of external speakers.
I had read about the Sonos system and dismissed it initially, but am now intrigued by the Wi-Fi, iPad, iPhone control of it. I have some questions as a result though.
I'm considering the Sonos ZP120 to provide the amp as well and would like to keep the Polk ceiling setup. My questions are:
* Would I need more than ZP120 to run 3 pairs of the 8ohm speakers?
* If I did have more than one ZP120 for some reason, is the idea that they "speak" to eachother and that is why I can control different speakers in different rooms from one interface?
* Doesn't it seem redundent to have more than one ZP120 with a multi-speaker setup when many people will just be after the additional amp and not really the CPU/control? I don't understand this part.
* If I want to pump the audio from a DVD playing through my TV system through the house (maybe a concert DVD), how would that work?