If you'd like to know how you can build an audio system at home without using usually expensive receivers, this article may be just what you need. Stereo receivers had always been important in setting up a sound system at home. But that's a thing of the past. It's now possible to play music from any room in your house without using fancy receivers.
First stop, what are receivers about? What do they do? The receiver's role is to detect sound signals coming from originating devices such as radio, computers, or, recently, the Internet like on iTunes, and then transmit these to speakers. Setting up an audio system all throughout the house can be expensive if you have more than two rooms and if you still use receivers. The expense is usually pegged at about $1,000. Imagine your savings once you learn your options.
This alternative system maximizes separate Apple technologies that can work as a unified system. You'll need: iTunes, which can store your music collection; AirPlay to distribute the sound signal throughout the house; Airport Express to help speakers detect the audio stream; and something to control the music - your loved iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.
Why not centralize your music source into one? iTunes. Let go of those stacked CDs, outmoded mp3 players, and free up valuable space from your computer's hard drive.
Just like the way Internet connection can be streamed throughout the house, AirPlay can stream audio from iTunes to any room you want or to all the rooms you want, even in the garden or patio if you're having friends over. And to integrate existing speakers to your new audio system, you simply need Airport Express base station. It will automatically connect your speakers to the audio stream coming from AirPlay.
Now enters your favorite mobile device. With the iPod Touch, iPhone, or iPad, you can now control the whole system. You can select the songs you'd like to listen to, select the rooms you'd want to light up (or should I say, sound up?), and relax from the comfort of whatever corner of your home.
This new system beats alternative setups by saving you as much as $1,000, compared with exclusively patented home audio systems. Why? Because basically, you need a lot less equipment and a lot less wiring. Everything is wireless.
This system is also open to innovations and newer technologies that may quickly come out in the market. For instance, you may connect some speaker units with Bluetooth rather than Airport Express. You can also explore the options in accessing and playing radio from the Internet through iTunes.
Do you see the possibilities of wireless digital music at home? This may be just the beginning of a new era in multi-zone home audio systems. But of course, you'd still be free to enjoy good-old classical music.
Create a wireless audio system among other possible digital home systems.