So I need a little help with home audio and see if the collective FBG wisdom can help. Our speakers are super old, though everything pretty much works. As a quick overview, we have 4 sets of pairs of speakers in various rooms and outside, that are all controlled via a receiver in our bedroom. There is an old controller where I can turn on/off each set of speakers. In the family room, I also have a pair of ceiling mounted speakers and a pair of super old Bose cubes. Those don't work that well so I have connected a pair of floor standing speakers and center channel. All of these are controlled from a receiver in our family room (both music and tv is played through these speakers). However I can't play the same music in the family room that I play throughout the rest of the house as those are essentially separate systems.
Ideally what I would like to do is to be able to control everything together so that I can play music throughout the house (including the family room) when we want it, and then be able to watch tv in the family room and use those same speakers. I have gotten a couple of quotes and they are both around $10K which is crazy expensive to me to upgrade a system that pretty much works. A couple of questions. Is there a way that I can play the same music simultaneously from two receivers, from say my iPhone? Both of my receivers have Bluetooth as they are considerably newer (one is a Sony & the other an Onkyo), but only one will connect to my iPhone at a time to play music.
The quotes are recommending Klipsch speakers for the family room and then lower-end in the rest of the house as we rarely listen to music, an amp for each paid of speakers throughout the house, etc. How can I do this for significantly less? Are there receivers where if I have two of them, I can connect them simultaneously to my iPhone? I'm just trying to see what I can do about my system without paying through the nose. Again everything mostly works and is already wired so I expected the job to be less than half that amount...or am I way off?
Ideally what I would like to do is to be able to control everything together so that I can play music throughout the house (including the family room) when we want it, and then be able to watch tv in the family room and use those same speakers. I have gotten a couple of quotes and they are both around $10K which is crazy expensive to me to upgrade a system that pretty much works. A couple of questions. Is there a way that I can play the same music simultaneously from two receivers, from say my iPhone? Both of my receivers have Bluetooth as they are considerably newer (one is a Sony & the other an Onkyo), but only one will connect to my iPhone at a time to play music.
The quotes are recommending Klipsch speakers for the family room and then lower-end in the rest of the house as we rarely listen to music, an amp for each paid of speakers throughout the house, etc. How can I do this for significantly less? Are there receivers where if I have two of them, I can connect them simultaneously to my iPhone? I'm just trying to see what I can do about my system without paying through the nose. Again everything mostly works and is already wired so I expected the job to be less than half that amount...or am I way off?