Anyone good at home audio and could give me some advice?
Alright, so in my house right now theres an old BOSE Lifestyle 50 system from the early 2000's. Doesn't really work right anymore and I want to replace the whole system and do something a little more modern.
Right now there are 3 different zones, a bathroom, a bedroom, and an exercise room. All zones have 5 of the bose speakers wired to a bose "acustimass" powered subwoofer in each room. (I think that serves as an amp?)
I really don't want to replace all the speakers and have to run new wires, it's just gonna be a major pain and the speakers still sound awesome. The problem is all the bose speakers have RCA plugs on the end instead of just speaker wire.
So what I was thinking about doing is buying a multi room reciever that can support 3 zones. Something like this http://www.crutchfield.com/p_580TXN7...cc=07&tp=59522
This is where I get confused. I'm pretty sure what I need to do is either purchase 3 additional amplifiers or receivers for each zone and run a RCA wire from the main unit to the additional ones. At that point I think I can plug the BOSE speakers into each additional reciever using a speaker wire to RCA converter.
I don't know if I can just buy a powered sub for each zone and plug it into each of the additional receivers or if i'd have to run it all the way to the main unit though. I don't know if this is even an efficient way to do this or if theres some kind of product i'm not even aware of.
TLDR: I have 3 rooms, each with 5 speakers that have wires leading to somewhere in that room with RCA jacks on the end. I want to use the old speakers and not have to rewire them. I want one receiver in the main room that controls all three different rooms.