Need help for multi-room setup

[franz]

Hi everyone,

I hope someone can give me some advice, here is my situation. My family is opening a spa in a commercial loft with 4 small rooms. I have planned to put a speaker in each room. I would like these 4 speakers to play mp3.

To make the set up in low cost, I am considering to buy a home theatre system in less than $300. Then get some long speaker cables to extend the speakers to each room. Both front speakers will connect to front left output, then both rear speakers will connect to front right output. Then I will set the output as stereo, so the signals will go to front left and front right output jacks only. However, I will have to convert all the mp3 into mono, therefore each speaker will output the same signal.

My question are:
Do you think 2 speakers sharing one output slot would greatly degrade the quality?
Is there a cheaper way to set up like that while sound quality is not a big issue?

thanks in advance
and merry christmas

 

[Jondot]

I dont think that tje sound quality degrades hugley when split, but there will be a drop in something, be it quality or volume. My Hifi is set up in my room with 2 speaker outputs, and 3 speakers. The right speaker output is only plugged into one of the 2 smll speakers that came with it, but the left output is split between a larger speaker and the other small speaker on an long extended speaker cable. I've found that the small speaker that doesn't share a socket is much louder the small speaker that shares, and is on a long cable.

Yes, there are cheaper ways to go about it than buying a home cinema system. What i'd suggest, is buying a reasonable micro hifi system with a phono input, and then purchasing 2 additional speakers for it, along with a 3.5mm jack to phono lead. Plug your mp3 player/computer in and you're away! The second option i'd suggest is buying a set of 5.1 computer speakers like the creative p5800s and a 3.5mm jack splitter like this:

, and plugging the front and rear speaker connection leads into each hole. The only disadvantage of that, is that you'll get very little bass indeed, as it uses the subwoofer for most of the work.

Hope this helps
And Merry Christmas

 

[icandriftbetter]

the sound quality is not affected when slpit no worries.