Home Speaker System?

Question

Does anybody know how much it costs to put in a whole-house in-ceiling or in-wall speaker system. The house we are building has 4 bedrooms which I would like speakers in all. Also I would like them in the basement, kitchen, living, 2 bathrooms, and 4 outside speakers.

Answer 1

Well first off it depends on how many speaker per room. Let's estimate 2 in each bedroom, 4 outside, 1 per bathroom, living room, kitchen 4 each, and 1 home theater system.
A good quality in home speaker in ceiling about 350 per pair, a good in wall being about the same.
2 Receivers and 1 multiroom switch approximately $2500. A whole house system controller (Fancy Remote that controls every room with a button) 1000 for the system and 1000 per master remote and 500 for a secondary remote.
Now with all that Speaker Wire run to every room in wall grade to the receivers. 3000. (Little extra for guesstimate)
and volume knobs per room 10 at 50 each 500.
And and Installer who can do it all for you 2500 to 4500.

About 25,000 to 40,000 depending on the equipment.

Answer 2

I just put in a system that would definitly be considered High end. It consisted of a Speakercraft MCZ 66 which is a Source controller. It the heart of the system. The ipod, sirius radio, and cd player connect to this device. You could connect more sources if you want but we decided to start small. Keypads in each room (included with the mcz) control the system. They control source, volume, tracks, pause, and play it's actually completly customizable but that is how we set it. The speakers we used are speakercraft mt6 two. They sound really nice compared to most in-wall speaker we tried out. They cost about 350 a pair. They had some that went up to 2500 a pair. So all this ran about 9000 installed.

Another option we explored was a speaker selector with volume controls in the rooms. Speakers would have stayed the same and so would have alot of other things. we had a choice volume controls where the equipment was or in each room or both. thing we didn't like about this was that it split wattage for each pair of speakers. The receiver we have put out 140 watts. If all the speakers were on then each speaker pair would get 35 watts. Not so bad but we plan on upgrading the rest of the house in the future. The MCZ has 50 watts per channel amp.
Also the control issue came up if im listening to a cd then everyone has to listen to that cd. With the mcz everyone can listen to their own source. I listen to the sirius while the wife is using the ipod.
Depending on you budget there are alot of choices Crestron, elan music servers are amazing and they give you a touch panel that doubles as a tv, control of every room and other systems in the house light lighting and so on. They cost alot but make whole house audio a breeze. The speakercraft system is somewhere in the mid high end. It offers alot of the same feature but not all you can have a music server and lcd screens but they are not touch capable. We put one such screen in the kitchen where we spend alot of time( mode keypad). It displays alot of info from the ipod. if I bought the music server it would show that too. Anyway the possabilities are just about endless. Chk out their site it pretty nice. Magnolia AV hooked me up I sure they could customize something for you.

PS. My house was complete when they did the install so that could make a difference for you. More possablities less money.

Answer 3

It all depends on the quality. If every speaker is $50 then that could be about $1200 for the speakers. The amp would have to be about $600 to $1000 or more to power all that. It all depends on how much you want to spend. ......You get what you pay for.

Answer 4

like all different experts of their solutions, stay a fashion from Bose, definite i attempt this for a residing too. i'm no longer going to specify a brad cuz i don't understand your funds. So with no funds my advice is to spend a similar volume on audio equipment that you spent on your DVD, CD, and Receiver mixed. So once you've a $2 hundred DVD + $one hundred CD + $700 receiver then spend $one thousand on the audio equipment or extra once you've the money. audio equipment take advantage important distinction! also for music and flicks, in case your funds enables, get some thing with more suitable the front audio equipment that may characterize bass. Subs are high quality if it quite is the equipment you could manage to pay for, even with if bass is mostly non-directional, even i visit inform the position a 30Hz tone is coming from so frontal bass is extra gratifying. And through all skill in case you could manage to pay for more suitable the front and a sub then do both. Listening tip, human beings have a tendency to purchase overly brilliant or bass sounding audio equipment (Bose) because area through area to a "comfortable" pair they look to sound extra perfect. it quite is till you get fatigued from listening to them. So imagine once you're listening "wow that treble is crisp and loud, sounds good"...... imagine about it, is it intense, is that going to malicious program me even as i'm observing a movie? wish this helps

Answer 5

I recommend either contacting a local
certified home theater installer. Here
are a couple of websites that will help
you find one nearest to you (and also
an excellent and complete source for
whole home theater components)...

H a p p y
H o m e
T h e a t e r i n g !

Answer 6

soundandvisionmag.com

They have many articles that will give you a good idea.