09-05-2020, 04:01 PM
A friend asked me and I'm struggling to tell him his options, based on usage.
1. Main room (new basement construction, drywalls not yet installed) will have home theater of some kind.
2. Secondary, adjacent room is a workout/gym room also with a TV.
The TVs would need to be fed independently, which also implies whatever sound those rooms hear. I mention the sound in the workout/gym because he's also interested in something better that TV speakers there ... with possible syncing so that both rooms play the same music (with TVs turned off I suppose, but if they could be fed by the same video that opens up possibilities.)
- I'm aware that surround sound receivers often have a 2nd zone for audio (pre-amp outputs?) or maybe that's handled at the speaker-level instead, kinda like the old days with a traditional A/B speaker switch built in.
- but that doesn't address how to switch from the gym's TV sound to the main stereo's sound (and volume settings, too)
You can see that I'm wondering if these should be two completely separate audio/video system, with potentially the gym room getting an aux feed of some kind from the other room.
1. Main room (new basement construction, drywalls not yet installed) will have home theater of some kind.
2. Secondary, adjacent room is a workout/gym room also with a TV.
The TVs would need to be fed independently, which also implies whatever sound those rooms hear. I mention the sound in the workout/gym because he's also interested in something better that TV speakers there ... with possible syncing so that both rooms play the same music (with TVs turned off I suppose, but if they could be fed by the same video that opens up possibilities.)
- I'm aware that surround sound receivers often have a 2nd zone for audio (pre-amp outputs?) or maybe that's handled at the speaker-level instead, kinda like the old days with a traditional A/B speaker switch built in.
- but that doesn't address how to switch from the gym's TV sound to the main stereo's sound (and volume settings, too)
You can see that I'm wondering if these should be two completely separate audio/video system, with potentially the gym room getting an aux feed of some kind from the other room.