Thanks for the advice, boys!
Good thought on extra deep boxes. I’ve grown fond of the Caseta Pro switches, which are quite shallow, but still a good point nonetheless.
Re: the Monoprice amp
I just took a quick look, and had NO IDEA there was a plugin!
I am quite fond of Sonos’s ability to send select sources (typically Spotify or Pandora for me) to different combinations of rooms. However, the cost of several Sonos amps and their possibility of obsolescence are both not appealing.
Edit: I just realize this is a matrix switcher, and this price point is pretty freaking amazing especially considering that it includes preamp outputs AND some gentle amplification. I think the wall controls even allow for auxiliary sources?
The DIY part is totally up my alley; my theater (on avsforums, and the only room spared from the water damage) is 13 channels + 2 monoprice subs, two infinite baffle subs, and 6 12” woofers under each seat. The subs are all calibrated on a mini-DSP. TL; DR- i like cheap Behringer amps and DIY solutions.
I presently have a few thousand feet of cat sex run through my old house, and it is kind of comical to see all of the wires drooping now that the house is gutted. This approach seems like I do one or a combination of the following:
1) run cat six to a wall controller to the matrix switcher/ amp so I can control it, and I think it allows IR repeating as well
2) run appropriate gaged speaker wires from the mono price to each speaker
3) if more watts are needed, place an amplifier in series between the monoprice switcher preamp outputs and the speakers
Am i getting this right? If so, this is an amazing price point. Because I am me, I also plan to run 24V low-voltage wires to the same boxes as the controllers so I can step them down to 5V and nicely wall mount and power some cheapo Fire 5 Tablets, because Domopad is the truth
I’ll throw some ideas up here to see what the brain-trust approves!
Edit: My speech recognition use of “cat sex” and not “cat6” will intentionally be left unedited, because it is a comical concept visual.