while I've talked plenty about the plan for the multizone audio in my new house
I haven't actually shown you guys the setup the reason for that is shame why
have you done this lus do you realize how good Bluetooth speakers are now how
expensive was this okay hold on a second no no there's a good justification for
this I know that Wi-Fi audio does come at a bit of a premium but as much as
this might look like a h a pigeon made it is capable of driving 177 different
music zones at up to 2,000 Watts total
and I will have you know it is not nearly as expensive as it looks because
everything here secondhand baby H it
certainly looks not that expensive given how much you've spent on this we are
going to fix that though action roll as part of operation final deployment for
real this time we've got the allnew cable management Arches from LTD store
we've got these sick 3D printed amp holders and we've got power tools
this is going to be a lot of fun today fun like this segue to our sponsor the
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look like it doesn't you must have these in your house though right yes so these
are just props then that was your intention no these were intended on I
wanted to use the Milwaukee ones cuz I assume that yours are bad before we get to any of that though
let's talk about some of the benefits of Wi-Fi audio first up it's not dependent
on your phone's range so you can keep it running in your kids's bedroom while you
are outworking in the yard for another it can be dynamically configured into
different zones so if you had a big room
like this with three pairs of speakers in it they could be one zone or you
could have a zone for an entire floor or even 17 different playlists in every
room in the house the biggest one for me though is that there's no need to repair
every time you want to use it with a different device when you're on the Wi-Fi you've got control now Sonos is a
pretty premium Wi-Fi audio solution and by looking at this you're probably
thinking that I've spent an inordinate amount of money but one of the cool
things about Sonos is that they're also very good at supporting their old
product which means you've got some options I went with older Gen 2 connect
amps that I slowly acquired from eBay for about
$260 a pop the latest version is better
it's smaller it's more powerful it supports HDMI audio input with Arc but
for a home music system none of that stuff really matters for me and the only
major feature that's missing for me is support for dual mono mode which is kind
of cool because if the intention is to just have music on while you're moving
around the house you're not going to be enjoying stereo Imaging anyway I just
didn't want to pay an extra $7,500 to just get that feature and if
you want to save even more than me you can pick up the Gen one version of The
Connect amp you're going to lose duby Atmos and 24-bit audio and you'll have
to use the older S1 app so you'll need
to operate any newer and older equipment separately but those ones can be had for
closer to the $100 price range per Zone
uh sort of unlike sons's speaker products which are allinone these are
not speakers they're just amps and you're going to need some speakers so
the good news is you can spend as much or as little as you want on them but the
bad news is you not only need those speakers you will also need to wire them
up which could end up being the most expensive part of the project and the
biggest pain in the butt I guess step number one is undo all the work I did
first how much did you spend on speakers Clips uh gave me a bro deal okay so yeah
no I wouldn't have spent that much not the $21,000 that it would have been if
they didn't there were these really nice pulk ones that I had at the old house
that were like $125 a speaker that's
what I was going to put in here and then Clips was like bro deal and I was like
they sound a lot better let's go yeah don't worry I haven't completely lost my
mind completely before you start ripping things out H yes do you know where
everything goes is this labeled can we please just like number everything so
that it all goes back together nice and easy VR Room 2 middle is that labeled on
the amp as well oh no fun fact even
though this has been hooked up all this time I have never just gone all 17 zones
and cranked it oh we need to do that we will I promise the music is playing
everywhere and it's found of work I have never seen them all together before I I
upgraded at peace meal as my eBay orders trickled in cuz as you'd imagine buying
17 units of something secondhand is not just like drop by the local Value
Village one favor that I did to Future
us is back when I did hook all this stuff up I separated this from the
bundles that were going into the rack so all we got to do is just chuck all the
excess back up there and then pull them through that hole but it's easy though
cuz they're all mostly extracted now feels like I'm holding some sort of
medieval torture device I know 17 tals this is it this is all and the
subwoofers oh wait yes and
the oh gosh okay oh oh oh oh this is
awesome uh do you have any of the really big clamps oh yes I want to show the
people this this is amazing I asked Tian for a couple of cable management things
he gave me literally thousands of dollars worth of this stuff watch this
so I have a question lonus we're putting these all on the wall yes but you have a
big server rack right here yes with space yes that space will be gone more
computers are going to go in there putting these in the rack takes up a lot
more room than you would imagine because you can't really stack them deep like
you can but then the cable management for them would actually get even more
complicated and besides the power for them is going to be coming off the wall
anyway I don't want these sucking up my battery back up if the power goes out
right so I'm not going to hook them up to my uh to my UPS so the wall felt
sensible okay Tech tip you can 5x your
floor space if you use your walls as more floor you need to own your house
first though that helps actually though the solution that we are going to be
using today is very renter friendly let me explain rather than Mount all of
these directly to the wall which would be a royal pain in the butt I mean who
has wall studs in so many different places we're going to be mounting all of
the amps all of the power distribution and all of the networking for them to
this piece of plywood then we're going to be mounting that to the wall I am
questioning whether 17 of them are going to fit on this I'm assuming cut line
that you've just drawn they should in theory Dand it up this solid works model
that we have right here good gravy is that ever tight that shows yeah all of
them will fit here but uh I want to check before we cut it lonus look at the
model do it the way that we're going to do it oh what are you what are you doing
I am realizing that my team secretly hates me
because what other reason could there be to give me all blue brackets except for
one orange one and one red one maybe those are spares or tests I actually
don't know so you're saying it's someone else who hates me yes it's Dan Dan hates
you okay so we've got lots of room is what you're saying I don't know if I'd
say that don't forget we still need awor switch power delivery and all the cable
management that has to go to all of this
I think I figured out what the 2x4s are for these to mount these to the yeah
plywood what I don't know is where these are supposed to go down here I'm kind of
feeling this kind of positioning assuming we have space for it cuz that
gives us sort of natural channels for
all the cables to follow all right before you get too into the cabling
stuff let's rip all of this off cut the board and go ahead cuz it is
clear that Dan's plan is going to work right cutting the board yeah I like
it every time I operate this I think
about Martina From Nerd Forge and just like if someone like that you know
highly competent person boy do I ever need to watch out we're shooting two
videos at my house today hi Jamie H this look good ready to start screwing oh
this looks amazing did you use drywall screws yeah I used High Performance
Construction screws neat all
right I noticed that you didn't cut off any of the ear mounts when you had the
table saw out oh I was hoping you had a chop saw I do not but you have that
beautiful table saw I have no chopa okay we'll do it on the table saw I already
like wheeled it back over there oh well
is there another way to do this cuz this honestly just doesn't even feel like the
best way really doesn't does it that's why I pulled you down here like a janky
kind of stupid way honestly speaking I could go tell Alex that I've solved the
problem but instead I'm going to have it magically solved when he gets back I
found all these little brackets that I kept you know just in case when the
installers put on our blinds and didn't end up needing these and it happens that
they line up perfectly so I can just screw them into the board this may seem
a minor thing but did we consider where on the wall the studs are and where
we'll need to not at all cool and hey that's not bad actually it's
kind of janky but it's acceptable I think yeah no it works it works now a
question for you I saw that either Dan
or Jake equipped us with a whole wack ton of banana plugs but I'm not really
feeling it you just want wires straight into these well honestly speaking banana
plugs are going to be a little bit less convenient for us to install with these
so close to each other they're right angle bananas though aren't they are they oh okay that's kind of cool still
it's really tight Alex these these are pretty nice and everything but how many
of these do we have to do 17 2 34 two
per speaker two per 68
times I think we can all agree that's not nice just to clarify if this was not
a permanent installation I would absolutely use banana plugs I use banana
plugs in my home theater and it's worth the effort if you're ever going to change up the speakers it's just a nice
secure friendlier
connection these are essentially for
they're they're staying wow this looks great I'm like actually kind of shocked
why well it's just it's one thing to see it in CAD and it's another thing to see
it in person you know what this is going to look freaking awesome can you put it
in the wrong hole or is it just fine oh no it's fine it's just a network switch
so whatever I guess this is the first time we've actually acknowledge this to
you guys every one of these units has two Ethernet ports on the back and it's
a really cool feature because it allows you to daisy chain them so we can take
our main switch here which is totally Overkill and only exists because Jake is
a ubiquity Fanboy and just likes playing around with their new hotness run maybe
four one to each row and then daisy chain them all the way up I'm kind of
feeling like these network cables should have been under the power cables though
I think that Jake got us cables for all of these so they match also the lengths
are a lot shorter so we wouldn't have so much excess yeah that makes sense too
late yeah too late oh well fun fact a
lot of the time it isn't a lack of
planning whole bunch of Geeks whose Specialties are not communication I am
the fourth person to be assigned it everyone's done a fair bit of work and
it's coming together pretty well I think I think it looks freaking awesome so
yeah no I'm with you yeah we communicated great I know this is
usually Jake's job but he's not here to do it shout out infinite cables because
having these in every possible length we've got 3ft 4T 5ot is going to make
the cable management a lot nicer here man this feels so permanent and pro
compared to what was going on before like even though obviously it's been
working and I've been listening to music this whole time this just feels really
different yeah now it's like a thing instead of stuff that's on a shoe rack
by the way to my knowledge um the shape of the Gen one and the Gen 2 connect amp
is the same so we would be happy to provide the STL files for these in the
video description if you go Gen one or Gen 2 I'm really really happy with these
the mounts are awesome yeah uh Dan designed these right yep yeah bang up
job okay hold on I'm I'm under it I need to move a little bit you have it Jamie
awesome well but the bit that I was wondering about about mounting it to the
wall like sure screws are fine yeah they are fine I love screws how do we hold it
up while it gets screwed in strapping young men look there's
one hi Andy oh oh yeah there's a stud there
okay yeah this is the entire like width
of a 2x4 and this one seems to be standing on end yvon's out which means
we can unplug her computer as long as we have it plugged back in by the time she
gets back I'm just going to start some of these screws here that way our
strapping young men won't have to hold this up any longer than they absolutely
have to yeah Sam you're the audio guy you you know how many there's no audio
here it's all audio yeah this is all audio audio yeah how's everybody doing
remember legs not
back okay uh I think we're past it now
I'm so sorry wa we need to get higher somehow but I don't really know how cuz
it's sort of where my strength is ending I can try here we go give her a little
more okay okay are you guys good yep rip
is okay pretty pleased I think this might be right on top of a nail good
luck okay she's snugged up I can't get it that one but I have this
one hey she's snugged go ahead you can let it go a little okay oh my God okay
told it there we go okay you guys are good
you guys are good that's three screws that's I'm going to that's more screws than I put in an entire computer woo hey
that is freaking awesome seriously
though how much better is that like the before and after doesn't get much more
Stark than that now for the next 20 minutes or whatever I get to plug in
speakers so basically now they just all
cram up here so the whole thing comes
this way and then we basically just make
a big coil of it and we just drop a
coiler up into the top there where no one will ever see it again we need to
figure out where exactly this is my skateboarding skills here comes the
ollie work no yeah I'm not even working today who are you people what are you
doing in my house I have this piece of insulation that's supposed to be here I
don't think that's going up today no nope that is pretty clearly not
happening if we hold out of the way the stuff that has nothing to do with the
Sono setup that is freaking awesome
especially when you compare it to what we started with all those wires are
still here they just look amazing okay
so all that we need to do now is oh boy plug all this that's a big
concerning um yeah what was this going to I don't know it runs under the rack
so probably important uh it makes a
noise when you unplug it so that's good
um um oh gosh there do you know what you unplug
that time no I don't know oh crap that's yvon's computer
again oh balls a one a two and a three
and theoretically everything is
perfectly everything's lit up good to go and we'll all light up huh what about
this boy this yeah the switch is just not powered on I think that's the issue
so any of the ones that are plugged straight into the switch don't have
their light on so that's probably why that light's not on oh wait yeah this
just isn't plugged in the switch isn't plugged in yeah we need to do that oh how do we power the switch wait that's a
no it's powered oh
haha is that well I mean it's a minor
detail what are the odds Alex that it
all just comes
online I don't know this uh you're the one that set all this up I just moved it
and maybe broke it in the process 100% 100% I like it David with the Good Vibes
today I I never I didn't see it work beforehand so as far as I'm concerned it
is in the same state that it was when I arrived but prettier I see activity on
the switch I see activity here what happens if I just hit play on one of
them I don't think it works like
that okay that's where ion's working but sure it's on everything's good they're
all working I think we know what we have to do all the way up no all the way up
would be a lot yes exactly they go yes I know yeah let's go and see if it's
working I don't hear anything I hear it oh yeah I hear
it oh it's coming out of the ceiling
uh yeah the music is playing everywhere
and I'm found of work oh the music's playing everywhere yeah can you stop it
uh yes uh it's off in the
office it's not off it's not off uh we
may have plugged the office one into the wrong spot so um we'll have to resolve
that very shortly for you thank you for your patience it sounds good in here
yeah the high ceilings uh really uh do pretty good hey
yeah and don't forget about the outside oh that's seamless
beautiful yeah my neighbors are
um going to hate me I would I would be
absolutely in love right now if I was them you know what else my neighbors
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well minor issues if you guys enjoyed this video then hey maybe go check out
the one where we oh check out the one where we hooked the computer up to the
pool water cooling Etc it's working like awesome this computer is so cool