M.B. Naegle
Diamond
- Joined
- Feb 7, 2011
- Location
- Conroe, TX USA
We use Pandora for our shop radio via a headphone jack connection to a desktop computer. It covers a 1000 sq/ft. area via eight basic 120watt speakers positioned two per wall alternating right and left so that you can hear stereo from anywhere in the shop, despite the area being full of equipment, pallet racks, shelves, etc. The speakers are all wired with approx. 50 ft. each stereo wire to the desktop which is in an office in the middle of the shop. Each speaker also has an inline volume control below it so people can turn it down/off if needed.
In between the PC and the speakers we used to use a pair of Insignia home stereo amps piggy-backed together to give enough amps and connections for the eight speakers. Then I found an old Onkyo amp with enough amps and connections to do everything on it's own (or so I thought), but it ended up being a nightmare trying to set-up speaker wattage, zones, Dolby Digital stuff and other garbage that I can't see any use for, and now it seems to be overloading as it's not the right amp for the job. We're not blasting high def base trying to overpower the other shop din, just giving some background tunes to keep our sanity. There are no sub woofers and there isn't really a "back" or "front" to the area.
For now I went back to the Insignia amps, but does anyone have any recommendations for a super simple 1000w home stereo amp with a single channel input, eight speaker outputs, and.... nothing else? Less of a "home theater" and more of a department store muzak set-up.
In between the PC and the speakers we used to use a pair of Insignia home stereo amps piggy-backed together to give enough amps and connections for the eight speakers. Then I found an old Onkyo amp with enough amps and connections to do everything on it's own (or so I thought), but it ended up being a nightmare trying to set-up speaker wattage, zones, Dolby Digital stuff and other garbage that I can't see any use for, and now it seems to be overloading as it's not the right amp for the job. We're not blasting high def base trying to overpower the other shop din, just giving some background tunes to keep our sanity. There are no sub woofers and there isn't really a "back" or "front" to the area.
For now I went back to the Insignia amps, but does anyone have any recommendations for a super simple 1000w home stereo amp with a single channel input, eight speaker outputs, and.... nothing else? Less of a "home theater" and more of a department store muzak set-up.