Multiroom audio is home entertainment at its most sophisticated. Imagine having a home that allows you to listen to whatever you want, whenever you want literally at the flick of a switch. A quality multiroom system can deliver everything from one central source, simply and easily with the installation of the correct equipment that can deliver different sources simultaneously to different rooms. Rather than using different devices to deliver music to different rooms, a multiroom system uses a single source. If you choose a well designed system like the Russound range, then you can have one server storing the music for a whole house and available to all residents, from the teenager playing tunes in the bedroom to the parents listening to Radio 4 in the garden.
Main Benefits
The main benefits of a Russound multiroom system are convenience and quality, allowing you to enjoy music from various audio sources in any part of the home. According to the company: “typically, all of the equipment is neatly concealed in one location, out of sight. All wiring is hidden within the walls. What you see are elegant keypads and speakers, intelligently designed (http://www.russound.com/who-we-are.php) to blend with the décor.”
Russound Products on Offer
Currently, UK-Automation (http://www.uk-automation.co.uk/) stocks four products for the home entertainment market from Russound. The Russound 4 Source 4 Zone Multiroom Audio System as the name implies, enables music or audio output playing in four rooms from four different sources. Distribution is via readily available CAT5 network cable and is based around A-H484 distribution hub with the source equipment (up to four sources) plugged into it using standard phono cables. The CAT5 cable runs from the hub to the A-K4 keypads in each room where you want music.
The Russound 4 Source 4 Zone Multiroom Audio System with Speakers is basically everything that the previous product supplies but with the addition of the US style J-Boxes for the keypads and ceiling speakers. Speakers can either be as pairs or single stereo or a combination of both.
The Russound A-H484 4 Source 4 Zone Surface Mount Hub is a four-zone, four-source audio distribution hub used with A-BUS amplified keypads which can be linked to another A-H484 (up to four) to increase the number of zones in a system. It supports four audio sources in a four-zone A-BUS system with each zone expandable to two rooms with inputs for A-K4 keypads.
Finally the Russound AK4 A-Bus Multi Source Keypad is designed for use with the A-H484 distribution hub and speakers to control music in a room. This is a useful little piece of equipment if you want to add a sub zone to your Russound A-Bus audio distribution system. Russound has a reputation for quality and reliability (http://www.russound.com/who-we-are.php) and throughout its 47 year history, has kept ahead of technology by designing and manufacturing innovative products that sound great, are easy to install and simple to use, and that offer great value.