Suggestions for bathroom audio?

[Simon Haslam <simon_haslam@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is not exactly home automation, but not far off...

I'm renovating our shower-room and so it would be an ideal time to add
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o - but I don't really know how! Do people generally have a separate
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, separate amp, or just run speakers off another room amp? If so, how do
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u balance the volume? We listen to R4 a lot so would probably mainly want
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hat in the morning so wouldn't need anything too fancy, but it would be
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e to have built-in speakers.

I currently use Squeezebox (SB Radio plus server running on Joggler/Atom)
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so would look to extend that (rather than switching to, say, Sonos).

I suppose I'm looking for sensibly priced water-resistant speakers (say
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50-60 the pair - so no KEF!), some sort of amp to go in the loft, some way
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to switch it on and off (I have a 1-wire network so could use that) and
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ething to hook it into the headphone output from the SB Radio.

This is what I've found:

1) speakers:
http://www.rs100.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=3D216
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Water-Resistant-Speakers-16-5cm-White/dp/B000IUTOZ4=
/ref=3Dpd_cp_ce_0 =A323
Lots of quite cheap looking ones on Fleabay

2) amp: e.g. T-amp 2x20W as suggested by others on this list
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NEW-T-AMP-TA2020-Audio-Amplifier-Board-2X20-Watt-/200=
597295221?pt=3DUK_AudioTVElectronics_HomeAudioHiFi_Amplifiers&hash=3Ditem2e=
b487d075

Should I be mounting in the ceiling or high up in the walls (partition
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s so possible)? Will a headphone level output (perhaps run over thin coax)
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be suitable to go from the SB Radio to an amp in the loft (perhaps 5-6m
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y)?

Note: I don't really need a separate source as the shower-room is next to
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he bedroom and I want to keep things reasonably simple.

Any suggestions welcome!! Thanks!


Simon


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