wireless hifi system help please

notwithit??

hi there
i am looking for a wireless hifi system with about 5 speakers so i can listen to music all over the house. im not sure exactly what i am looking for or costs, if some one on here could advise me?? i would like to play cd's and listen to the radio. does such athing exist? i googled it but can only see things for an ipod.

thanks

LeeSouthEast

You can get Sonos, but that's hideously expensive.

My plan was to buy 3-5 AirPort Express units and wire up hidden speakers in the ceilings of the rooms I want the potential for music in. There's no reason why you couldn't do away with the hidden speakers and use traditional stereos instead, permitting you to play physical cd's and listen to the radio as well. The AirPort's will link up with your iTunes library on your PC and can be optionally controlled with your iPod touch if you own one. The same music all over the house, or different playlists in every room. Control the volume individually, turn off rooms on demand etc. etc. Also pretty cheap to do... you can pick up refurb APE's for around £50 each.

DCFC79

Whats your budget

notwithit??

i guess (as i have sone redundancy money) tops... about £600??

notwithit??

i dont own an ipod as all my music is stored on my mobile, so was hoping to err away from that option, unless of course it is significantly cheaper or the only way.

DCFC79

notwithit?? wrote: »

i dont own an ipod as all my music is stored on my mobile, so was hoping to err away from that option, unless of course it is significantly cheaper or the only way.

you basically want a hifi system which will let you choose your media throughout the house,

LeeSouthEast

Unless you're an existing iTunes user and preferably with an iPod, don't go my route. It'll set you back more than your budget to do from scratch. Sonos is also going to be outside your price range for the number of rooms you want to do (I think the starting price is £2k!).

Bit stuck for further suggestions I'm afraid.

Taffybiker

The Philips wireless music system appears to be within your budget.

tomsutton529

lots of ways to do this. the most expensive way is to build a media server with enough outputs to supply an amp for each room and use a PDA to control whats played.

my solution is an Xbox (first gen) thats software moded (costs nothing to mod and about £20 for the xbox). with this you can stream media from a network drive (£80) and I controll theese with the dvd remote for the xbox.

OR you can spend lots of money on a device that does it for you which i belive to be around £150 per room.

Marty_J

notwithit?? wrote: »

i dont own an ipod as all my music is stored on my mobile

What are you going to stream music from then?

You have no music on your computer?

notwithit??

Taffybiker wrote: »

The Philips wireless music system appears to be within your budget.

i was just looking at that too! ok so i would need the hub then 4 other was7500 sat stations. wow thats about £1200! i guess i need to up my budget then:eek:
thanks for the help!