[slinkelist] DXS pricing

[Dave Kolb]

These are entire receivers - preamp, tuner and amp with 4 inputs with
basically the same sound quality as the much more expensive Sony receivers
and they have 100W/channel. I can drive two pair from each receiver so 5
receivers will run 10 rooms. I ordered two yesterday that should arrive
tomorrow and if I like them will order 3 more. I'm getting them from One
Call at 800-340-4770 for $135 each plus shipping which they had by far the
cheapest for 2nd day air even though the farthest away - Spokane (I always
wait for ever to order and then pay 2nd day air once I finally do ;-).  They
are IR controllable for about everything but not the speaker A|B switches.
Also they have no phone input. I plan to just leave the speaker AB both on
and turn the unit on/off and adjust the volume via IR and the volume
controls I will have in each room. The Sony CD300 player was $299 including
the shipping. I found a volume control with off as well as a headphone jack
(at Smarthome.com I think). There were a couple of other places I found on
the net for within about $3 - these guys convinced me they were one of the
few discount but authorized Sony dealers. Also since on PST they could still
ship that day as it was nt 3PM there yet ;-)

No units seem to switch the speakers on and off via remote that I found
unless you get into the Kustom type switcher.

Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: Jay Pfaffman <pfaffman@relax.com>
To: davekolb@email.msn.com <davekolb@email.msn.com>
Date: Friday, October 22, 1999 12:07 AM
Subject: Re: [slinkelist] DXS pricing


>On Thu, 21 Oct 1999 23:09:59 -0400, "Dave Kolb" <davekolb@email.msn.com>
said:
>
>> My current plan is to split my 300 CD player line level out to 5
>> Sony DE135 units (which are fairly decent actually) and drive 10
>> rooms of whole house audio where each room pair has a dedicated
>> tuner (the DE135) and can share the CD as well as up to 3 more
>> inputs to each receiver. 5 DE135 units will only cost $700 total and
>> I will have lots of redundancy builtin. The Slink-e will drive the
>> CD and receivers under my program control in conjunction with CDJ.
>
>That seems like a pretty decent price for amps--where are you getting
>them?.  I've been looking for reasonably-priced amps for a while now,
>but it's difficult to find anything but full-blown 5 channel systems.
>Also, most amps don't let you switch speakers on & off via remote.
>
>I've got about 8 pair of speakers myself.  I've got three amps now,
>one of which is not IR controllable, but I have a volume control in
>one room, so that's OK for one pair.  One of the amps has the ability
>to run separate inputs and separate volumes to each pair, which is
>pretty cool.  I'm about to resign myself to buying a couple of $30
>switch boxes to select which pairs are on.
>
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