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[Deephaven]

Of course it sort of depends on what you consider "control"

[dem beats]

Interesting.... I think I'm going to do some deep reading on the options available for down the road.....

In conclusion for my instand needs then I think I will deal with local controll for now when it comes to anything A/V related. Now all I need is to find an A/V receiver for the living room, and decide if I move the HT speakers up and get new HT sound or buy new speaks for living room and bedroom.

I think I have 80% of my decision on how to handle the kitchen/outside zone settled.

[Deephaven]

Make sure that you get something with a normal open source control so that it is automatable in the future.

As a temporary solution running your current living room in a second/third zone for the kitchen could be fine.

[dem beats]

Something just crossed my mind about my yammy, and it was one of the reasons why I purchased this device instead of some less feature rich and more robust pre pro system. It networks in amazing ways. I just found out that the z7 has the ability to be controlled by computer interface via it's network connection and I can controll all zones independantly via it's network capability. Also has a few other options that are pretty awesome with syncing multiple zones to play the same track timed properly for "party mode".

I hope it works with windows 7 and not just vista.

[dem beats]

Not sure how usefull it will be but it looks like it might be pretty awesome. I sourced this image from over at audioholics.

[Deephaven]

Add a Squeezebox or two to that and you will have a PC controllable solution that will do what you need. You'll just have to port all your inputs to the receiver.

I'd imagine that you can also use a remote. When pulling wires, I would pull a Cat6 along with it to use as a hardwired remote repeater.

[dem beats]

Yup.

pretty soon I'll have several lines of cat 6 per room I bet. With a corporaite rack switch I can really just hard wire it all. =D

[Deephaven]

I would encourage you to really think to the future before you pull wire. ie, it sucks enough the first time you don't want to do it 2x.

It will be a good option to see if it does "enough" or if you want to jump head first into other upgrades

[dem beats]

I'm super lucky with hung ceiling in the basement, It's going to be a snap

*knocks on wood*