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I'm setting up a small coffee shop and I want to use eight to twelve ceiling speakers for it. The general floor layout is rectangular about ten meters long by three meters across. I want to put speakers about every two meters in stereo but staggered as well as one in the restroom. The reason for this is because we can't have loud music in the place but I want crisp clean sounds throughout the place at a low sound level. The music that will be played will be mainly jazz vocal, Spanish guitar, fado and arias.
My question is what do I need to buy to make this happen at a reasonable cost? Most receivers only have 7.1 outputs and when I ask about using stereo on all channels and splicing two speakers on a line I get strange looks from people and told I need to buy a lot of stuff - expensive always. So what is the deal? I simply want to run in all the speakers in stereo with a ceiling mounted sub if I can find one. The main source of music will be from a computer. I have almost no technical knowledge of this stuff. Anyway information would be greatly appreciated.
I'm setting up a small coffee shop and I want to use eight to twelve ceiling speakers for it. The general floor layout is rectangular about ten meters long by three meters across. I want to put speakers about every two meters in stereo but staggered as well as one in the restroom. The reason for this is because we can't have loud music in the place but I want crisp clean sounds throughout the place at a low sound level. The music that will be played will be mainly jazz vocal, Spanish guitar, fado and arias.
My question is what do I need to buy to make this happen at a reasonable cost? Most receivers only have 7.1 outputs and when I ask about using stereo on all channels and splicing two speakers on a line I get strange looks from people and told I need to buy a lot of stuff - expensive always. So what is the deal? I simply want to run in all the speakers in stereo with a ceiling mounted sub if I can find one. The main source of music will be from a computer. I have almost no technical knowledge of this stuff. Anyway information would be greatly appreciated.